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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'><b>Asylum</b> seekers still need help</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Andrew Probyn </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1053 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>23 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The West Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TWAU</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>77</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015, West Australian Newspapers Limited </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">W ith history as a guide, there has been an expectation that at some point Australia would ask New Zealand to take some of the <b>asylum</b> seekers languishing on Nauru and Manus Island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It happened under John Howard. New Zealand took nearly a quarter of the people sent to the offshore detention centres between 2001 and 2007 — 401 of the 1637 detainees.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Of the 433 people who were rescued by the Norwegian freighter MV Tampa — an incident that triggered the “Pacific Solution” — 208 were resettled in New Zealand, including 131 Afghans who were lucky enough to be sent straight to the land of the long white cloud rather than via Nauru or Manus.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It’s not the only time the Kiwis have been a good friend to Australia when it comes to <b>boat</b> arrivals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In February 2013, Labor prime minister Julia Gillard struck an agreement with Kiwi counterpart John Key for New Zealand to take 150 processed refugees a year from Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The deal had the reinstated Nauru and Manus detention centres firmly in mind but it has never been invoked.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“That’s been in place for some time,” Mr Key said of the deal during a press conference in Auckland with Malcolm Turnbull at the weekend.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Australia hasn’t exercised their right there ... but that’s always an option that’s available.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When the Kiwis recently started arcing up about a growing number of their nationals being thrown into detention in Australia, including on Christmas Island, as a result of tough new deportation laws, some sniffed a new opportunity to get even more help from New Zealand on dealing with the offshore detention load.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If it was considered and it was quickly rejected.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is understood the Government believed sending <b>asylum</b> seekers to New Zealand would send the wrong signal insofar as they would get what they wanted, given the porous border with Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Moreover, the Government feared it could even encourage the boats to start up again.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If you accept this logic, the next question is to ask what is the alternative?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is where it gets diabolically difficult.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The coalition can blame Labor all it likes for the disaster from when Kevin Rudd unpicked the Howard era policies; the hundreds of deaths, the multibillion-dollar cost of dealing with an influx of 50,000 people and the likely multibillion-dollar cost of offshore detention centres.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But those poor souls on Nauru and Manus remain Australia’s moral responsibility, even if they have been dispatched a long way from Australia and kept well out of public sight.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Eventually they will have to be found somewhere to go.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As much as the detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island are now deemed necessary by the coalition and Labor as part of a deterrent framework, they are nasty stains on Australia’s international citizenry.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Looking again at history for guidance, it is clear that resolving the <b>asylum</b> seekers’ futures will take considerable time.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The size of the <b>asylum</b> seeker population on Nauru and Manus is not dissimilar to what it was under Howard. This points to the challenge ahead.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As of September 30, there were 934 people on Manus and 631 on Nauru, a combined 1565. This is 72 short of the total number of people sent to the centres under Howard (but higher than the combined offshore detention population peak of 1515 in February 2002).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It took six years to clear the centres last decade, but only after Sweden, Canada, Denmark and Norway joined with New Zealand to take some of the detainees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Of the rest, there were 483 voluntary returns (30 per cent of the total case load) and 705 (43 per cent) were resettled in Australia. One died.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If the Turnbull Government remains determined to keep resettlement in Australia and New Zealand off the table, the challenge looks improbably difficult, if impossible.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">European nations, themselves enduring a huge migrant influx because of the Syrian civil war and Islamic State , are not going to help this time around.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And the Philippines and Cambodia, two nations with whom Australia has been negotiating resettlement agreements, hardly have the First World attraction of Ottawa, Oslo or Copenhagen.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indeed, the $40 million spend on the Cambodian deal has so far attracted just four takers — an investment return that could’ve bought each <b>asylum</b> seeker a Peppermint Grove mansion with a butler.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nor will possible resettlement in Papua New Guinea or Nauru be an inducement — both were chosen because of their obvious deterrent value.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If the Government thinks fit to wait out the <b>asylum</b> seekers in the vain hope they eventually go home, it is at least incumbent on the Government that what is done in Australia’s name should be done according to its standards.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On this measure, what is being done on Nauru and Manus are chronic fails.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Institutional abuse, rape and, in the case of Manus, murder is being committed against people who will continue to be Australia’s ultimate responsibility.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Disturbing too are the allegations, aired this week on the ABC, of a female <b>asylum</b> seeker, a 23-year-old Iranian, who faced a distressing interrogation by Nauruan police after reporting a brutal rape, an interrogation that only came after police stopped for half an hour to watch a fireworks display.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Other rapes have been reported on Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The murder of Reza Barati in the Manus Island compound and the harassment and intimidation of witness and fellow <b>asylum</b> seeker Benham Satah is also deeply worrying.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Despite the obvious need for much greater transparency and oversight of these places, the opposite is happening.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This week Nauru granted its first visa to a foreign journalist in 18 months. To prevent scrutiny, the nation has implemented a non-refundable $8000 application fee for foreign media.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If transparency is restricted to a contest between <b>refugee</b> advocates’ assertions and Government rebuttals, no one will be any wiser and the truth will always be contestable.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Border Force Act provision that exposes detention centre workers to two years imprisonment if they disclose “protected information” continues to hinder public interest disclosures.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australians must be assured the offshore detention network does not merely subcontract misery.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What is being done on Nauru and Manus are chronic fails.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">andrew.probyn@wanews.com.au</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Migration | gcrim : Crime/Legal Action | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | nz : New Zealand | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>West Australian Newspapers Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document TWAU000020151022eban00096</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-ADVTSR0020151021ebam00032" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'><b>Refugee</b> is accused of people smuggling</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>JORDANNA SCHRIEVER   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>360 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>22 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A MAN accused of facilitating a people-smuggling operation took $5000 from his victim and is under investigation for smuggling other people to Australia, court documents reveal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sri Lankan national Jasothiran Shellakandu, 35, allegedly attempted to assist another Sri Lankan man travel from Indonesia to Australia on a <b>boat</b> between 2009 and 2013.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He appeared in Elizabeth Magistrates Court yesterday charged with one count of people smuggling over the attempt.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The court heard he fled his home country – fearing persecution – and was granted a humanitarian visa in 2013.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><span class="companylink">Australian Federal Police</span> officers arrested Shellakandu on Tuesday at a factory at Wingfield. They also raided his Elizabeth South home.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In opposing bail, prosecutor John Clover told the court police had found 10 credit cards with fake names in Shellakandu’s car.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“False identification material gives an indication the defendant has the ability to access these types of documents, which would assist him should he seek to abscond,” he said. “He has very limited ties to the community and he has some involvement in obtaining documents in false names.” He said associates of Shellakandu had also threatened witnesses who had identified him as a people smuggler, and sought money from them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In court documents, the AFP allege telephone intercepts revealed “a pattern of criminality ranging from credit card skimming, bank fraud and a strong knowledge of people smuggling activities”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The defendant is under investigation for smuggling several other persons from Indo-nesia,” the AFP said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The documents also reveal the man he took the $5000 from paid another people smuggler $4000 for a place on a <b>boat</b> intercepted by the navy in 2012.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Aaron Frolow, defending, told the court his client, who has permanent residency, fled Sri Lanka after family members were killed in a bomb blast.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“He can’t return to his home country. He indicates that if he does return there, he would be persecuted,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said his client posed no threat to the community.Magistrate Yoong Fee Chin suppressed Shellakandu’s im-age and ordered a home detention bail report. He remanded him in custody until next week.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>REALITY OF LIVES ON THE LINE</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CAROL NAGY   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>755 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>22 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>51</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2015 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is hard for me to explain how precarious daily life is for people who are making the dangerous journey across the Mediterranean. I have come across boats where more than 50 people have died of asphyxiation. They had succumbed to the squashed conditions, overpowering engine fumes, heat exhaustion and dehydration. I have seen people left extremely malnourished and weak from the unhygienic conditions they were subjected to in transit countries. Many had physical injuries resulting from their ill treatment, including being beaten, shot and raped.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is the reality of this type of journey. This year I spent three months on board the <span class="companylink">Médecins Sans Frontières</span> (<span class="companylink">MSF</span>) search and rescue <b>boat</b> MY Phoenix. Jointly operated with the Migrant Off-Shore Aid Station (MOAS), the MY Phoenix operated off the coast of Libya, rescuing thousands of people as they risked their lives attempting to reach safe haven in Europe.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As Medical Co-ordinator I was part of a team of six, providing post-rescue care. We had more than 7000 people on board the Phoenix during the three months I was involved. We provided everything from food and emergency clothing and medical care to caring for women suffering from sexual violence, providing full ­resuscitation and medical evacuation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But our biggest role was to provide compassion, safety, hope and to treat these people with the dignity they ­deserve but are often denied.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">From the safety and security of a place such as Australia, it is difficult to imagine what motivates people to make this dangerous journey. However as a humanitarian worker I understand very well the harsh reality of daily life these people are fleeing. I have seen it first-hand in Dadaab, the world’s biggest <b>refugee</b> camp; a place where hundreds of thousands of people are trapped, and where they live with little hope for a better tomorrow.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">From the increasingly brutal war in Syria, to the difficulty of life under an oppressive dictatorship in Eritrea, everyone we meet has a very strong reason for fleeing their country. Many head to Libya only to find themselves trapped in a lawless place where they face torture and abuse.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Once on board we connect at a very personal level with these people. Most have endured unimaginable hardship on their journey, often at the mercy of unscrupulous people smugglers. I heard several stories of people being left to die if they fell out of the pick-up truck. People were often held captive and tortured for money. The women were often raped.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On a typical day we may come across two to three boats or rubber dinghies with up to 600 people on board. These boats, in my experience, were always close to sinking. So far <span class="companylink">MSF</span> has helped rescue over 16,350 people and assisted a further 1116 ­people with safe passage to Italy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They are all very, very grateful. People I talked to often told me they knew they could die crossing the sea but it was worth the risk because they couldn’t continue to live they way they had been. They see the only way out is by <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many tell us that they didn’t want to leave their homes, but did so ­because they had no other choice — they were fleeing for their lives. They were risking everything to find freedom. It makes you realise just how lucky we are.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Today there are more than 59 million people forced from their homes around the world. We have to come to terms with this issue as it is not going to disappear. As a humanitarian aid worker, it is deeply disappointing to hear the Australian government label its turn-back-the-boats policy as humanitarian. There is nothing ­humanitarian about leaving people to suffer or die out of sight, or to take their suffering elsewhere in the world.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I have met these people. I have seen the gravity of the situation on the Mediterranean. Not everyone gets to see this so I feel it is my job to tell this story to those who might not truly appreciate how horrible this is.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is no easy solution to global displacement, but what is clear is that people who are the victims of some of the world’s most dire crises need more compassion, and less punishment. These people are the same as us and they need our help.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Carol Nagy is <span class="companylink">Médecins Sans Frontières</span>’s Medical Co-ordinator on board the MY Phoenix.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>CO</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>doctwb : Médecins Sans Frontières</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>coccsh : Workplace Safety/Health Issues | gdev : Development/Humanitarian Aid | grape : Sexual Assault/Rape | c42 : Labor/Personnel | ccat : Corporate/Industrial News | gcat : Political/General News | gcrim : Crime/Courts | gdip : International Relations | gpir : Politics/International Relations | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfcpin : C&E Industry News Filter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | usa : United States | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | namz : North America</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document DAITEL0020151021ebam00005</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AGEE000020151021ebam00030" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Indonesian jailed in Australia when 14 wins court hearing</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Jewel Topsfield   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>501 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>22 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An Indonesian youth who was just 14 when he was wrongfully jailed in an Australian prison for adults has won the latest court battle in his fight to clear his name.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ali Yasmin, also known as Ali Jasmin, spent two years in Western Australia's maximum-security prison in Albany after being convicted as an adult on people smuggling charges in 2010.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This was despite the fact the Office of the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions had a legalised copy of his birth certificate that stated he was still a child.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Instead, the court relied on a wrist X-ray to determine his age - a method that has been discredited.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The full bench of the Federal Court of Australia on Wednesday ruled Attorney-General George Brandis has a legal duty to make a decision on Mr Yasmin's request to have his case referred to the West Australian Court of Appeal. This request has been outstanding for more than a year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Mr Yasmin thanks the court for considering his matter," his lawyer Sam Tierney, from Canberra firm Ken Cush and Associates, said. "He is pleased that he now has an opportunity to continue the fight to clear his name."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The law firm hopes that if the case is referred to the appeal court his conviction will be quashed, as he was a child at the time.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This could pave the way for him to sue for wrongful imprisonment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the time he was convicted, the federal government had a policy of not prosecuting Indonesian <b>boat</b> crew who were children, instead sending them home.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Yasmin grew up in Bala Uring, a small village on the Indonesian island of Flores, where his family bought fish and sold them at the market.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He was 13 when he was offered a job loading food on a <b>boat</b> headed for Java in 2009.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said when the <b>boat</b> was close to Pelabuhan Ratu in West Java, two small boats carrying lots of people came on board.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I didn't know where we were heading, I didn't know anything."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <b>boat</b> Mr Yasmin was on was apprehended in Australian waters. It was carrying 55 Afghans seeking <b>asylum</b> in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Yasmin, who is now a fisherman in Indonesia, said that when he was released from jail in 2012, after 878 days in detention, he told all his friends not to accept a job if it was not clear what they had to do.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said was angry he had allowed himself to be cheated and that the Australian government had not believed his story.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"They believed my other friends' story. That's why they were sent back home, although we were of the same age."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Yasmin said if he ever received compensation he would use it to renovate his mother's house.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The fact that it is still standing is perhaps because we are still living inside it."</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Student may be sent back to war-torn Afghanistan</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Henrietta Cook, Education Reporter   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>559 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>21 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>12</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration - Court to decide fate of teen chosen to deliver valedictory speech</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ali* is more worried about his future in Australia than his upcoming VCE English exam.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The 19-year-old Afghan <b>asylum</b> seeker is on a bridging visa and a looming court case will determine his fate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I don't know what's going to happen, he said. "It's all up in the air."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The softly spoken Hazara teenager fled Afghanistan fearing for his life, leaving his family behind.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He has not spoken to them since.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After living in <b>refugee</b> camps, the then 15-year-old boarded a <b>boat</b> and travelled to Australia. "The journey has been difficult," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I have been having a lot of nightmares and the trauma of the past still impacts me."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Salesian College Chadstone student is unable to talk about his past in detail because it could jeopardise an upcoming court case.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Immigration Department has determined that Australia has no obligation to protect Ali, and he is now challenging that decision.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If unsuccessful, Ali could be sent back to Afghanistan, where he claimed he was persecuted.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"So many people lost their lives. Every day you see conflict and darkness," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is not known how many <b>asylum</b> seekers sit the VCE every year, but the numbers are small. As well as adjusting to a new culture and language, most have experienced traumatic events and may carry physical and mental scars.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ali started at Salesian College Chadstone two years ago as one of only a handful of Muslim students at the Catholic school. He has loved learning about a new religion and culture and making friends.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Experiences familiar to most Australian students, like the school formal, initially seemed strange.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The relationship between teachers and students also took a while to get used to.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"In Afghanistan we have to sit quiet in the classroom and can't ask questions. But here you ask the teachers questions."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The teenager has been juggling exam revision with meetings with a Victoria Legal Aid lawyer who is helping him with his case.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His first VCE exam is English, a language he struggled to speak when he arrived in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He speaks it fluently now, and reads books about psychology, a field he wants to study at university.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Wednesday, Ali will deliver a valedictory speech in front of the entire school. It will be a big moment for the year 12 student, who will share his story with the school community for the first time.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I'm very fortunate and grateful for the people around me and the friendships I've made. The teachers have given me a lot of time and checked that I am OK."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He has two words of advice for other VCE students: "Stay positive."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Resettlement agency AMES Australia runs homework clubs and short courses for <b>asylum</b> seekers, and helped a VCE student at Parade College last year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It is hard enough for most young people to complete their last year of study, but these students might be here on their own or have court cases looming over them," AMES Australia's general manager of education Anne Cosentino said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It's hard to make plans for your future."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">*name has been changed</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Sailing into a new career</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By PENELOPE GREEN   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Q&A</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">JESSICA WATSON</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SOLO AROUND THE WORLD</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SAILOR AND COMMUNICATIONS</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">MANAGER FOR DECKEE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Your family lived on a <b>boat</b> for five years when you were young. Did that inspire your decision to attempt to become the youngest person to single-handedly circumnavigated the southern hemisphere?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was actually a book that inspired me to sail around the world. Although I'm sure living on the water for years and meeting loads of amazing sailors planted the first seeds of inspiration.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">You were just 16 when you got in your 10.23-metre <b>boat</b> Ella's Pink Lady and said goodbye to the world for nine months in order to nab that title. And yet, you have said you were a timid child who was "pretty much scared of anything". What happened?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was pretty simple really, once I'd decided to sail around the world I realised I had to be tougher! At first I pretended to be brave and then I gained confidence as I become a better sailor.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Looking back, do you think you realised the enormity of it all when you set sail solo?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The funny thing is the biggest emotion I remember from the day I set off was relief to finally leave! It was about a week into the voyage that the enormity hit me. It was daunting but also exciting as I realised that I was finally undertaking the voyage.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">How hard was it to go back to normal life after being alone for so long?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The excitement and adrenalin kept me going for months but maybe I was a little strange. After speaking on the radio and satellite phone for so long I didn't look at people while talking and it took a week to find my land legs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">You wrote an autobiography, True Spirit, about your solo trip. What sort of emotions did it evoke and was it enjoyable?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A lot of the book was written during the voyage so it was a lot like writing a diary and helped me cope mentally. Although I do feel a little strange about writing an autobiography at such a young age.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Your book is being turned into a major film and it's been reported Nicole Kidman will play your mum. Are you consulting on the film and when is it expected to be in cinemas?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sadly Nicole is just rumour but we have some amazing people involved. I don't have any dates yet, it's not a fast process. My role is technical consultant and I also get to be the sailing stunt double!</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Who are you hoping will play you a</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">nd are you nervous about seeing it?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I'm hoping the role is given to an up and coming star and I'm very nervous about seeing it!</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">You're close to finishing a media and communications degree. Why did you choose that path?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I started out with a more general degree and found that it was the communications subjects that I enjoyed. I've also completed a project management diploma, I just want to learn as much as possible.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">You're the new communications manager for Deckee, the online boating community website created by Nelson Bay boy Mike McKiernan. How did that come about?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I was looking for a new challenge and supporting the boating community and industry is something I'm passionate about. When I heard about Deckee early in the year I kept an eye on what they were doing then I reached out to Mike to find out how I could help. Deckee has great potential to assist boaties and that's something I want to be part of.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">You've been scrutinised by the media since the age of 16 and now you'll be dealing with journalists ... What do you hope to bring to the role?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I value privacy and working with the media didn't come naturally when I was younger but sharing stories is so important and I have a huge amount of respect of journalists who work very hard. A big part of my role with Deckee is also engaging with the boating community which I really enjoy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As the Youth Ambassador for the UN's <span class="companylink">World Food Programme</span>, you recently travelled to Jordan and Lebanon to meet Syrian refugees. What did you take away from that and do you feel Australia's <b>refugee</b> policy is adequate?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Meeting <b>refugee</b> families and hearing their stories was very moving. The courage shown by some of the young girls I met was inspiring. I would love to see our policy-makers meet the families I talked to. You can't meet people like that and not feel compassion. It was terrifying to learn that the <span class="companylink">WFP</span> often faces funding shortages and refugees sometimes go without food.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After your solo trip you skippered the youngest crew in the Sydney to Hobart yacht race then took a hiatus for a year. How often are you sailing now?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Over summer I sail most weekends and I love it more than ever!</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For someone who has achieved so much at such a young age it would be easy to rest on your laurels ... or do you have other record-breaking attempts in store?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I think a lot of people expected me to set off on another big adventure, but that would have been the easy thing to do. I want to challenge myself in different ways like working with Deckee. Although I do plan on sailing around the world again, stopping at amazing places next time!</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The national youth unemployment rate is around 13 per cent - more than double the national employment rate - and here in the Hunter it's above 20 per cent in some areas. As a former Young Australian of the Year, what would you say to youth who might be struggling to find a career path?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I know that every young person faces their own challenges and our high youth unemployment rate is terrible. I've found persistence very helpful and I like to break big goals down to more achievable steps. Having the audacity to have a go at something is also important, not just for young people.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">GOLD COAST BULLETIN WEDNESDAY OCT 24, 2001</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>ASYLUM</b> seekers are an issue that is as controversial today as it was 14 years ago.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And in 2001, the election campaign turned ugly.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The tragic drowning of 350 mostly Iraqi <b>asylum</b>-seekers sparked a series of extraordinary personal attacks between Prime Minister John Howard and Opposition Leader Kim Beazley.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Howard said Kim Beazley was contemptible and desperately despicable while Mr Beazley called the PM a word twister.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the end of a day of mudslinging, the Coalition launched its new advertising campaign which targeted Mr Beazley’s support of already wounded senior ALP member Cheryl Kernot.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The election debate turned nasty when Mr Beazley used the sinking of the <b>refugee boat</b> headed for Australia to attack the Howard Government and its “failure’’ to engage Indonesia and its blase attitude to people-smugglers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was a claim Mr Beazley had always made, but Mr Howard reacted to the comments being linked to the drownings.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The PM used his first radio interview in more than four days and two other public appearances to savage Mr Beazley.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“He cast the first slur,” said a defiant Mr Howard. “He said that there was a link between the sinking of that <b>boat</b> and our policy, and that was wrong, wrong, wrong. It is a desperately despicable thing for the Leader of the Opposition to try and score a political point against me.”Mr Howard went on to win the election against expectation and remained in power until he lost office in 2007.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Doctors fail to face realities of children in detention by throwing switch to moral outrage</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Gerard Henderson </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We can’t let people-smugglers decide our <b>refugee</b> and humanitarian intake</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last Sunday’s <span class="companylink">Herald</span> Sun published one of the most memorable photos of the week. A couple of hundred staff at the <span class="companylink">Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne</span> posed for the camera, fists clenched. There were doctors, nurses, technical staff and more besides standing behind a placard that read: “Detention harms children”.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is no doubt that RCH employees were advocating a noble cause. In an ideal world, children would not be held in detention in a democratic society such as Australia. But, as we all know, there has never been such an entity as an ideal society. Democratic politics is all about making the best decisions possible in the light of current realities and intended and possible unintended consequences.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sunday’s <span class="companylink">Herald</span> Sun published an opinion piece signed by “Royal Children’s Hospital doctors”. They stated “detention harms children and families” and called for “moral leadership on this issue to find a solution, quickly — to use alternatives to detention to stop the harm”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Noble sentiments, to be sure. But the RCH doctors did not suggest what such an alternative or alternatives to mandatory detention might be. Indeed, they effectively denied that unlawful arrivals by sea were a problem.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Instead, the doctors threw the switch to moral outrage by declaring: “When we use a different language to talk about these (<b>asylum</b>-seeker) families — calling them ‘<b>boat</b> arrivals’ or ‘illegal maritime arrivals’ — we start to accept their situation in detention, one that we would not accept for other children or for our own children.” This overlooks the fact children in detention are different from other children. The fact is they have usually come with — or have been born to — men and women who have entered Australia without valid visas, invariably as a result of the illegal people-smuggler industry.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Labor government between 2007 and 2013, led by Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard, essentially adopted the policy advocated by the RCH staff.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This meant that, for a time, Australia lost control of its borders and our <b>refugee</b> and humanitarian intake was decided by people-smugglers. During the period up to mid-2013, when Labor finally toughened up on unlawful immigration, about 50,000 people claiming <b>refugee</b> status entered Australia, mostly without identity papers. The overwhelming majority were not fleeing death or injury since their journey to Australia was a secondary movement, meaning they came to Australia via Indonesia or Malaysia — to which they had travelled voluntarily and where they had no fear of death or persecution.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Then there were the drownings. It is estimated that 1200 souls — children, women and men — drowned in their attempt to enter Australia during the previous Labor government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is the equivalent of 2500 people dying out of an AFL grand final attendance of 100,000.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This equates to about eight times the number of beds in the RCH on any one day. Any business that had a death rate of such magnitude would be shut down immediately and the management charged with manslaughter, perhaps even murder.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">No one doubts the good intentions of RCH staff. Yet their sense of urgency should not pass without comment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As Malcolm Turnbull pointed out in the House of Representatives on Monday, under the Rudd-Gillard government, “the number of children in detention peaked at almost 2000”. During Paul Keating’s Labor government in the early 1990s, the equivalent number was about 350 children. Presently there are fewer than 200 children in detention — about 100 in Australia and slightly fewer in Nauru. When John Howard left office in March 2007 there were no children in detention.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I do not recall any hospital staff engaging in high-profile protests about children in detention during Labor’s time. Objection to the mandatory detention of children seems to be a matter of most concern during the prime ministerships of Coalition leaders John Howard, Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">During question time on Monday, Adam Bandt, the Greens MP for Melbourne, questioned Turnbull about the decision of RCH staff to refuse to discharge “<b>asylum</b>-seeker children because your government will then lock them up back in detention centres”. Bandt continued: “No one wants to see people drown at sea, but do you really believe that we cannot find a solution that does not involve locking up babies and children in mental illness factories?” Bandt went on to say that “previous Labor and Liberal governments got it wrong” on this issue. But he failed to acknowledge that the Greens entered into a political agreement to support the Gillard government. As the Prime Minister said in response to Bandt, the policies that the Greens “still support” led to people dying at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bandt’s backing of the decision by RCH doctors not to release children <b>asylum</b>-seekers who are patients raises a difficult problem. Bandt seems to be saying that some children, due for discharge from the RCH, should be prevented from reuniting with their families or guardians unless the Turnbull government changes its policy on mandatory detention.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It’s easy for the likes of commentators and barristers, who are not responsible for the conse­quences of their advocacy, to take the moral high ground on this issue. Last Tuesday, Julian Burnside QC tweeted: “Stop the boats policy causes terrible harm to <b>boat</b> people and Australia’s reputation but harnesses xenophobia for political gain.” How self-righteous can you get? Burnside deliberately overlooked the demonstrable fact stopping the boats also stopped the drownings.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Moreover, he is willing to accuse his fellow Australians of xenophobia without acknowledging the widespread acceptance of the Abbott government’s decision to admit 12,000 refugees from the Syrian civil war, in addition to the existing <b>refugee</b> and humanitarian intake. Perhaps Australia’s most successful settlement of refugees came during Malcolm Fraser’s government in the late 70s. Of the tens of thousands of Indochinese refugees accepted by Australia, all but 2059 were processed offshore and arrived in Australia on <span class="companylink">Qantas</span> planes with valid visas. This was one of Australia’s most successful <b>refugee</b> settlements and quite a few ended up working in Australia’s big public hospitals.Gerard Henderson is executive director of the Sydney Institute. His Media Watch Dog blog can be found at theaustralian.com.au.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">T here’s something Shakespearean about the turbulent and intrigue-riddled industrial relations career of Bill Shorten which is being raked over again in the trade union royal commission.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is not a story of star-crossed lovers, but it certainly involves a political Romeo stuck between two powerful forces from the Left and the Right in Labor’s factional swamp.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The militant construction union, the CFMEU, and Shorten’s more pragmatic AWU might not be the Montagues and Capulets, but Shakespeare’s prologue rings true.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Two households, both alike in dignity,</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten runs a government-in-waiting that is heavily influenced by the CFMEU and there is plenty of evidence that he relies on them for his own internal survival.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But his history as an AWU leader is of a long clandestine war with the militant union.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Details of one AWU deal designed to damage the CFMEU emerged early this week from the commission’s probe into Melbourne’s $2.5 billion EastLink road project in 2003-4, but similar things took place in WA around the same period under the Gallop Labor government involving the Perth-Mandurah rail line and city tunnel — and on Pilbara mine sites.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The commission called executives from the <span class="companylink">Thiess John Holland</span> joint venture to explain a workplace agreement with Mr Shorten on the Melbourne project that cut standard industry conditions established by the CFMEU, delivering savings of as much as $100 million to the builder and undisclosed payments of $300,000 to the AWU.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a statement prepared for the commission by Stephen Sasse, the man who set up the industrial relations strategy for the joint venturers, he described how a review of productivity issues led to the conclusion the CFMEU had to be excluded.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For example, the CFMEU was demanding up to 20 non-working delegates on a major project.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Apart from their direct costs, non-working delegates were hugely disruptive to productivity,” Sasse wrote. “Of particular concern was their interference in sub-contractor mobilisation and bogus safety issues.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Before attempting to involve the AWU, Sasse wanted to ensure he could cut out the CFMEU.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“My intent was to provoke the CFMEU into taking unlawful action by formally advising the union that we intended to build EastLink without the restrictive practices identified above,” Sasse wrote.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When that didn’t work, he met Shorten, saying that if he agreed to remove the non-productive CFMEU conditions, the joint venture would not proceed under controversial Howard-era Australian Workplace Agreements.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It was also suggested that by entering into such an agreement, the AWU would be reinstated as the principal union for civil construction — a position which had been steadily eroded by the CFMEU,” Sasse wrote.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“A high level, in-principle agreement was reached between Shorten and me in late 2004.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But in what has become a Shorten political hallmark, within days he was backing out of the deal, demanding some involvement by the CFMEU.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“When I questioned him as to why he had reneged on our agreement, and on such a fundamental component of that agreement, he replied that there were ‘political’ imperatives which I would not understand,” Sasse wrote.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“My understanding was in fact that at the time there were various shifts in the political alignments between the ALP factions in Victoria, and that Shorten had a requirement to maintain or build his influence with the far left faction which was associated with the CFMEU.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, when the AWU challenged the CFMEU’s stranglehold on CBD construction work in Perth over the Gallop Government’s Mandurah rail line and tunnel in 2003, the militant union won the day.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">CFMEU heavy Joe McDonald boasted that only “real unions” would have workers on the job, even though the AWU had traditionally done rail work.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Leighton Kumagai joint venture was subsequently hit by a series of “blue flu” industrial disputes involving the CFMEU which led to seven cost blowouts totalling $250 million.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten was more successful when the CFMEU was trying to muscle its way back into the Pilbara under Gallop changes to industrial laws.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Members of five unions, including the CFMEU and the State branch of the AWU, formed the Pilbara Mineworkers Union in an attempt to get back into non-union sites at <span class="companylink">Rio Tinto</span>’s Hamersley operation and Robe River in 2003.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, without notifying his State office or the workers involved, Shorten did a deal for a Federal award with the two miners.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was explained by a Rio manager in these terms: “The award will mean that the company will be able to largely run their own affairs without being hassled by the unions and the WA industrial relations commission. To do that we had to get close to a union.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And the AWU award cut site allowances under AWAs from 35 per cent to 30 per cent, leaving the workers worse off.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Hamersley Iron workers feel like we’ve been stabbed in the back by Bill Shorten,” PMU organiser Shane Kelly told an angry <span class="companylink">ACTU</span> Congress in August, 2003.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Once again Shorten had been instrumental in cutting out the CFMEU to the advantage of big employers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But at this year’s Labor national conference when Shorten put his leadership on the line on <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> policy, it was the CFMEU that saved his bacon.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And so Shorten’s deadly dance with the CFMEU continues. This Shakespearean drama has some way to run.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In days, he (Shorten) was backing out.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>c184 : Joint Ventures | c18 : Ownership Changes | cactio : Corporate Actions | ccat : Corporate/Industrial News | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfcpin : C&E Industry News Filter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | victor : Victoria (Australia) | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>West Australian Newspapers Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document TWAU000020151016ebah00057</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-DAITEL0020151016ebah0004y" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Lifestyle</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>LETTERS FROM HEART OF HELL</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>LISA MAYOH   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1133 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>17 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>65</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2015 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>REFUGEE</b> CHILDREN ARE SHARING THEIR STORIES OF INCREDIBLE HARDSHIP AND THEIR LOVE OF NOW BEING SAFE IN AUSTRALIA, WRITES LISA MAYOH</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Drawings of stick figures bearing machetes. Memories of weeks on boats and not being able to forget seeing people fall overboard and drown.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fondly recalling the red crabs on Christmas Island and making new friends over a game of soccer on the sand.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A profound appreciation of being able to live in Sydney, safe from war and the conflict they escaped which feels like a lifetime ago.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They are the expressions of young refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers as told during the Sydney Children’s Writers’ Festival My Story project, documenting the lives of children living in Western Sydney after escaping the danger in their home countries of Myanmar, Iran and Malaysia. Launched by Sydney Children’s Writers’ Festival laureate Jackie French last year, the first stories will be published next month to mark the start of the 2015 Children’s Festival.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The project will continue, documenting the changing face of children across Western Sydney.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sydney Writers’ Festival’s Head of Children’s Programs Jeanmarie Morosin says it was an intriguing project collecting stories from children about their lives before settling in Sydney. A virtual time capsule for the changing area.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It’s about telling their story and it is ongoing, so we will have this amazing archive of the lives of kids and we can look back on the growing, vibrant area. That’s exciting,” she says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We did two workshops with <b>refugee</b> and <b>asylum</b> seeker children and they were amazing. They are like any kids. They were cheeky and full of life and they tell you their most amazing stores and then they just want to go and play soccer. They have such a resilience and a real protection of their families and an appreciation of their lives now.” Morosin says, while telling such personal stories was quite a vulnerable experience, the children had authors Andrew Cranna and Belinda Murrell to help them through the process.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It was really humbling yet confronting as well, with some of the stories the kids were saying — it was quite amazing,” Cranna says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There was one girl who was on the <b>boat</b> and said she was scared to go to the toilet as there was a hole that went straight into the ocean and she didn’t want to fall in.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Someone saw a man fall overboard and drown. There was another girl who was fascinated by the crabs at Christmas Island. She had never seen a crab before so that was interesting.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Hearing those stories you think the struggles in my life are so insignificant. It made me very grateful of what I have and they seemed very grateful for their new home.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It hit me hard afterwards.” A teacher, children’s author and illustrator, Cranna says the experience had inspired him to write a book for kids on refugees: “There were kids who didn’t really want to tell us about their journey and how they came to Australia, but as we got to know them they opened up and were happy to tell us what they went through and what their families went through.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I’d never heard such stories. You hear about these issues on the news and hear the stories coming out of Europe but in a way you distance yourself — but it was so special to see them creating and illustrating and sharing such powerful stories. They were just normal kids with heartbreaking stories to tell.” Murrell says the project was so emotional it moved her to tears. “I absolutely loved it. It was a bit daunting because we had these super-excited kids and they all had so much to say. They were so gorgeous I found it quite a moving experience. All the kids had been in detention and come on boats and come from traumatic experiences as young children,” she says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“At one stage I had to read out one of the stories and it was so emotional I burst into tears. It was such an eye-opener, and so rewarding.” The My Story project is open for entries to any child aged five to 18 and stories can be submitted in written form, as an audio recording or as a story in pictures.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A curated selection will be published on the My Story website on the first day of the festival, Monday, November 2.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The festival will run until November 29 and will feature 30 of Australia’s best authors and illustrators for children, as well as international superstar Jeff Kinney, author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The extensive program offers free events at schools, libraries and community venues across the city’s west. For more information visit swf.org.au/my-story.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Here are some of the children’s stories: ABDUL “I was at my home when I was four and my aunty called because she heard the news on the television. She told us that we couldn’t live in our country anymore because there was going to be a fight. We were on the <b>boat</b> for 18 days … then we arrived in Darwin and went to the centre. I went to school on a bus and I was the best kid in my kindergarten class. I even had to teach some other kids. I could not speak any English before I came to Australia! My first word was soccer.” JENAH “When I was around 10 or 11 me and my family had to leave Myanmar because of the Burmese government burning houses, destroying mosques, killing Muslim fathers and brothers and they abused the women. We decided that we are going to Australia so we can have a better life where there is no war between two races. So we travelled to different countries by a <b>boat</b>. It was dangerous but we kept going no matter what until we were here in Australia.” LINA “In Malaysia I didn’t go to school because we weren’t allowed to. The journey to Australia was so scary and so dangerous. We stayed on the <b>boat</b> for a month. But after we were finally arrived at Australia. The first plane that we arrived was at Christmas Island. What I like the most in my life now is that I can go to school, I can learn more, so I can help my family, and go to the place that I really want.” MESSI“I was afraid and scared on my journey to Australia. After one month I arrived to Christmas Island and I don’t like it there. What I loved about Australia is going to school. My favourite thing is to play soccer with my friends.”</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">'Australia is juggling an awful lot of balls in the air.'</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">F oreign relationships, like personal relationships, operate in several planes and dimensions at a time, and it is silly to think our leaders so unsophisticated that they do not understand their complexity. But Australia is juggling an awful lot of balls in the air at the moment. Here's China, with whom we are concluding treaty arrangements to liberalise trade. Even as we are joining an essentially anti-China trade coalition called the Trans- Pacific Partnership. We have recently had a lot of faux horror because some Labor politicians expressed reservations about easing migrant labour restrictions. They were accused of racism, of imperilling Australia-China trade and friendship. At the same time, however, Australia is keen to participate in a US sail-past of artificial islands claimed by China, in a provocative move to assert freedom of the seas and reject any extension of Chinese sovereignty over the area. This is to show the Chinese that they don't scare us and we will not let little things like trade relationships get in the way of an occasional friendly mention by an American president. John Howard famously declared Australia did not have to choose between its relationships with the US and China. Early in the Abbott government, when there was no thought so complex it could not be reduced to a three-word slogan, our foreign minister Julie Bishop insisted China was pragmatic and that one could talk tough on, say, disputed islands, while cooing at each other about commerce. On the other apices of this particular triangle, China seems to be conforming to the Bishop claim, but in a way that hardly seems serene or purely pragmatic. American talk is increasingly predicated on the assumption that, probably sooner than one might expect, there will be an armed clash. China, sensing this, is increasingly shrill about "encirclement", about maintaining and developing its claims to nearby islands, about provocations and deliberate testing of its claims. It purports to be puzzled about Australian efforts to further develop American military bases on its territory, and chides us for a want of independence from the US. Meanwhile, both the Chinese and Australian economies are less mutually interdependent because of commodity trade slowdown and China, requiring fewer supplies, has more choices for partners. No doubt China will act in its long-term national interests, rather than irritation at an Australian yappy dog that could be kicked more easily than the US. What's not so clear is that Australia even perceives its interests, short, medium or long term. If Australia's long-term interest depended on whose side we were on, we would, regardless of which way we went, not necessarily be on the side of the winner, or unsquashed if we were. Actually, our interests are best secured not by promoting triangular relationships, but a vast network embracing India, Indonesia, Japan, South-East Asia, Europe and South America, so that those who might want to hurt us must calculate how doing that affects relationships with other players. Too often Australia wants the smaller players in teams on one side or another, rather than as individuals calmly weighing interests, history, geography and chance. Half a globe away, Australia has other balls in the air. There's the MH17 air crash, almost certainly as a result of being struck by a missile fired by a Russian supported Ukrainian separatist. Australians were among those who died and, partly because we were at the time a temporary member of the <span class="companylink">UN Security Council</span>, Julie Bishop and Tony Abbott took major international roles in berating Russia for the deaths and demanding justice for the</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia's mixed messages muddy international waters</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">From Page 1</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">victims. It has never been quite clear what this justice requires, unless it involves putting on trial, for murder, every person involved in the decision to fire the missile on that particular day. One might expect that there are some western allies who would see this as a dangerous precedent. There's a hanging implication that the murder trials must necessarily include Russia's Vladimir Putin. For this, one would need to demonstrate (and it has not been yet) that someone in the Russian military knowingly authorised a shot at a civilian airliner. That is about as likely as imagining that Barack Obama knowingly authorised a bombing raid on a <span class="companylink">Medecins Sans Frontieres</span> hospital in Afghanistan. A recent report lends no support to the idea of a conscious murder mission. It looks, as it always did, more like a stuff-up caused by thinking the aircraft was a Ukraine warplane. International airlines were taking extraordinary risks by flying over a war zone in the face of clear warnings. Such misjudgment may not exonerate those involved in the decision to fire the weapon, but makes it far more difficult to sustain a case of premeditated murder by the Kremlin itself. Australia's grievance with Moscow, and various hyperventilations, such as Abbott's threat to shirt-front Putin, might have been</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">harmless stunts for public opinion, were not Russia's relationships with almost everyone a little tense at the moment, in ways that affect Australian interests. Russia has big problems in the Ukraine and, with neighbours such as Georgia, with jihadism and a stagnant economy. Its interventions on behalf of the Assad regime in Syria show a nation re-emerging from defeat in the Cold War to again being self-assertive, imperially minded and belligerent in its diplomacy. No doubt Russia, like China, is more measured and deliberate in its actions than loud words suggest, but there is at the moment an appearance of expedience, risk- taking and opportunism in the way that Putin is taking the morning air. The MH17 affair, however horrible to its victims and their families, is probably a fifth-order matter for Russia, even if only through a Ukraine telescope. It does serve as a stick with which to beat Russia, for what that's worth. But no resolution of the affair changes any realities on the ground or life for the people of Ukraine. Russia's thinking on such matters is dominated by belligerence towards pro-western Ukrainians, inspired civil wars in Ukraine's eastern provinces, western sanctions as a result of Russian inspiration, arming and leadership of separatist movements, perceptions of Western military encirclement, and Russia's energy interests and access to the oceans. Australians have led the condemnation of</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Russia because bigger western countries do not need this issue to complicate how they find a new modus vivendi with the bear. We treat it as a compliment; it has, in fact, been a hospital pass. Meanwhile Russian aircraft and military activity in Syria has pretty much killed off whatever was passing as a strategy to break the power of <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span> in Syria, and fundamentally altered whatever is to happen in Iraq. Russia is only casually fighting IS; it is also fighting anti-Assad forces being helped by the coalition and trying to ensure its continuing interests in Damascus, with or without Assad. The Russian presence has created the possibility, for our very own and not very significant RAAF contribution, to be known as The Few, that someone might fire back at them, deliberately or accidentally. The RAAF has encountered no such predicament for more than 50 years. Like most of the allies with which it compares itself, it doesn't seem to know what to do if this happens. Other than to concentrate on utilities, tents and huts in Iraq where the dots on the ground do not, probably cannot, fire back. (IS does have notional access to anti-aircraft weapons, including missiles, but seems to lack the expertise to use them. As an American military chap put it, IS air defence "is not a factor" in anti-IS operations.) It may not make much difference anyway, given that no observers think that western air power, let alone Australia's tiny</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">contribution, has made the slightest difference to anything. They may have, at terrific expense, killed a few IS leaders and destroyed some of its arsenal. But this does not seem to have affected "facts on the ground". By the latest rationale, air power is not about winning anyway. It's about "buying time" for the Iraqis (or perhaps "our" Syrians). But it seems that neither Iraqi politicians nor soldiers will ever become effective or credible. Both, for example, are more, not less (as promised) dominated by Shiite interests, who use their power for sectarian purposes. This was why IS arose and came to flourish. Western training has seemed incapable of providing leadership, morale or the zeal. Iran now dominates Iraqi politics. Local Shiite militias are increasing fighting alongside regular Iranian "volunteers", who are far more effective than the formal armed forces. Kurds are fighting rather more effectively in their own territories, but largely independently of the Iraqi government, with whom they have, at best, only a slight interface of current interests. The Kurds want, and will probably get, an independent, or at least autonomous, Kurdistan, just as, down the track, the remainder of the old Mesopotamia will probably be divided between Sunni and Shiite areas, with Jews, Christians and Yazidis left to fend for themselves. Turkey, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia are</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">playing duplicitous games, much more focused on their own self-interests rather than the rights and freedoms of Iraqis or Syrians. They and others are, in any event, struggling desperately with millions of refugees pushed out of the battlefields. Australia has come to imagine that we might be able, independently, to exercise some influence over what Iran does. This would make Julie Bishop the Metternich of the Middle East. Iran is facilitating Russian efforts in Syria, though I doubt it is with the same agenda. Russia wants to maintain some influence in the Middle East, and Syria has been its last client state. Iran wants Shiite domination through Iraq and Syria and Lebanon to the Mediterranean. It is simultaneously helping a Shiite-dominated Iraq (an ally of Australia) while effectively helping to maintain Assad (whom Australia would like to see go) and interfering with (and helping fund factions in) the Byzantine world of Lebanese politics. Fear of Iran, moreover, is the primary motivation behind the policies of Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States. Iran shares long borders with Afghanistan and is a player in its continually evolving politics. More groups are associating themselves with IS, instead of the <span class="companylink">Taliban</span>, in the cruel, tribal and very local wars and politics of that country. That may not be the point, compared with the difficulties of central control, competence and legitimacy, and the prospect of further tumult, human</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">rights abuses and a steady <b>refugee</b> flow. The investment of western lives and treasure in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria over the past two decades has made no permanent improvement to the lives of its inhabitants. It has mostly made things worse. A few tyrants have been overthrown, for tyrants not noticeably better. Our new client governments labour under the appearance of being our puppets, but are as venal and ruthless as those they replaced. Sharp firefights have caused some unimportant local victories that made no difference and which are quickly forgotten other than for shortened lives, trauma and long-term physical and mental disabilities. Even our current monster, IS is a product of creatures we unleashed. Its savagery has been as much aped from those, including the Saudis, with whom we have economic and political accommodations, as from our worst enemies and nightmares. As we wonder that IS' horror and violence can inflame and inspire young people, even here, we can assure ourselves that "their" problem with modernity is theirs, not ours. We, apparently, know what we are doing. National interest is almost foremost in the minds of our masters and mistresses. Thank heavens we have Julie Bishop and Tanya Plibersek on watch tonight. Helped by the lonely patrol of George Brandis and Mark Dreyfus, protecting our liberties, and Peter Dutton and Richard Marles making sure that <b>boat</b> people have none.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">victims. It has never been quite clear what this justice requires, unless it involves putting on trial, for murder, every person involved in the decision to fire the missile on that particular day. One might expect that there are some western allies who would see this as a dangerous precedent. There's a hanging implication that the murder trials must necessarily include Russia's Vladimir Putin. For this, one would need to demonstrate (and it has not been yet) that someone in the Russian military knowingly authorised a shot at a civilian airliner. That is about as likely as imagining that Barack Obama knowingly authorised a bombing raid on a <span class="companylink">Medecins Sans Frontieres</span> hospital in Afghanistan. A recent report lends no support to the idea of a conscious murder mission. It looks, as it always did, more like a stuff-up caused by thinking the aircraft was a Ukraine warplane. International airlines were taking extraordinary risks by flying over a war zone in the face of clear warnings. Such misjudgment may not exonerate those involved in the decision to fire the weapon, but makes it far more difficult to sustain a case of premeditated murder by the Kremlin itself. Australia's grievance with Moscow, and various hyperventilations, such as Abbott's threat to shirt-front Putin, might have been</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">harmless stunts for public opinion, were not Russia's relationships with almost everyone a little tense at the moment, in ways that affect Australian interests. Russia has big problems in the Ukraine and, with neighbours such as Georgia, with jihadism and a stagnant economy. Its interventions on behalf of the Assad regime in Syria show a nation re-emerging from defeat in the Cold War to again being self-assertive, imperially minded and belligerent in its diplomacy. No doubt Russia, like China, is more measured and deliberate in its actions than loud words suggest, but there is at the moment an appearance of expedience, risk- taking and opportunism in the way that Putin is taking the morning air. The MH17 affair, however horrible to its victims and their families, is probably a fifth-order matter for Russia, even if only through a Ukraine telescope. It does serve as a stick with which to beat Russia, for what that's worth. But no resolution of the affair changes any realities on the ground or life for the people of Ukraine. Russia's thinking on such matters is dominated by belligerence towards pro-western Ukrainians, inspired civil wars in Ukraine's eastern provinces, western sanctions as a result of Russian inspiration, arming and leadership of separatist movements, perceptions of Western military encirclement, and Russia's energy interests and access to the oceans. Australians have led the condemnation of</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Russia because bigger western countries do not need this issue to complicate how they find a new modus vivendi with the bear. We treat it as a compliment; it has, in fact, been a hospital pass. Meanwhile Russian aircraft and military activity in Syria has pretty much killed off whatever was passing as a strategy to break the power of <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span> in Syria, and fundamentally altered whatever is to happen in Iraq. Russia is only casually fighting IS; it is also fighting anti-Assad forces being helped by the coalition and trying to ensure its continuing interests in Damascus, with or without Assad. The Russian presence has created the possibility, for our very own and not very significant RAAF contribution, to be known as The Few, that someone might fire back at them, deliberately or accidentally. The RAAF has encountered no such predicament for more than 50 years. Like most of the allies with which it compares itself, it doesn't seem to know what to do if this happens. Other than to concentrate on utilities, tents and huts in Iraq where the dots on the ground do not, probably cannot, fire back. (IS does have notional access to anti-aircraft weapons, including missiles, but seems to lack the expertise to use them. As an American military chap put it, IS air defence "is not a factor" in anti-IS operations.) It may not make much difference anyway, given that no observers think that western air power, let alone Australia's tiny</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">contribution, has made the slightest difference to anything. They may have, at terrific expense, killed a few IS leaders and destroyed some of its arsenal. But this does not seem to have affected "facts on the ground". By the latest rationale, air power is not about winning anyway. It's about "buying time" for the Iraqis (or perhaps "our" Syrians). But it seems that neither Iraqi politicians nor soldiers will ever become effective or credible. Both, for example, are more, not less (as promised) dominated by Shiite interests, who use their power for sectarian purposes. This was why IS arose and came to flourish. Western training has seemed incapable of providing leadership, morale or the zeal. Iran now dominates Iraqi politics. Local Shiite militias are increasing fighting alongside regular Iranian "volunteers", who are far more effective than the formal armed forces. Kurds are fighting rather more effectively in their own territories, but largely independently of the Iraqi government, with whom they have, at best, only a slight interface of current interests. The Kurds want, and will probably get, an independent, or at least autonomous, Kurdistan, just as, down the track, the remainder of the old Mesopotamia will probably be divided between Sunni and Shiite areas, with Jews, Christians and Yazidis left to fend for themselves. Turkey, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia are</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">playing duplicitous games, much more focused on their own self-interests rather than the rights and freedoms of Iraqis or Syrians. They and others are, in any event, struggling desperately with millions of refugees pushed out of the battlefields. Australia has come to imagine that we might be able, independently, to exercise some influence over what Iran does. This would make Julie Bishop the Metternich of the Middle East. Iran is facilitating Russian efforts in Syria, though I doubt it is with the same agenda. Russia wants to maintain some influence in the Middle East, and Syria has been its last client state. Iran wants Shiite domination through Iraq and Syria and Lebanon to the Mediterranean. It is simultaneously helping a Shiite-dominated Iraq (an ally of Australia) while effectively helping to maintain Assad (whom Australia would like to see go) and interfering with (and helping fund factions in) the Byzantine world of Lebanese politics. Fear of Iran, moreover, is the primary motivation behind the policies of Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States. Iran shares long borders with Afghanistan and is a player in its continually evolving politics. More groups are associating themselves with IS, instead of the <span class="companylink">Taliban</span>, in the cruel, tribal and very local wars and politics of that country. That may not be the point, compared with the difficulties of central control, competence and legitimacy, and the prospect of further tumult, human</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">rights abuses and a steady <b>refugee</b> flow. The investment of western lives and treasure in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria over the past two decades has made no permanent improvement to the lives of its inhabitants. It has mostly made things worse. A few tyrants have been overthrown, for tyrants not noticeably better. Our new client governments labour under the appearance of being our puppets, but are as venal and ruthless as those they replaced. Sharp firefights have caused some unimportant local victories that made no difference and which are quickly forgotten other than for shortened lives, trauma and long-term physical and mental disabilities. Even our current monster, IS is a product of creatures we unleashed. Its savagery has been as much aped from those, including the Saudis, with whom we have economic and political accommodations, as from our worst enemies and nightmares. As we wonder that IS' horror and violence can inflame and inspire young people, even here, we can assure ourselves that "their" problem with modernity is theirs, not ours. We, apparently, know what we are doing. National interest is almost foremost in the minds of our masters and mistresses. Thank heavens we have Julie Bishop and Tanya Plibersek on watch tonight. Helped by the lonely patrol of George Brandis and Mark Dreyfus, protecting our liberties, and Peter Dutton and Richard Marles making sure that <b>boat</b> people have none.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Jewel Topsfield   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1140 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>17 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>37</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Retno Marsudi is no stranger to dealing with the challenging dynamics between Australia and Indonesia. In 1990, the then junior diplomat was awarded her first foreign posting: she was an information officer at the Indonesian embassy in Canberra. The following year, 250 East Timorese pro-independence demonstrators were shot in the Santa Cruz cemetery in Dili.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In an interview with Tabloid Nova, Retno recalled finding her car crushed after a university visit following the massacre, being put under 24-hour police guard and having to keep her son home from preschool for a week. The Indonesian embassy was blockaded; staff were forced to pick up their mail and dispose of their rubbish through the Chinese embassy. Instant noodles and eggs were on standby at the embassy in case they couldn't leave.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It was very difficult," Retno says in an exclusive interview with <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span>. "But I learned a lot from the way my ambassador [former Jakarta Post editor in chief Sabam Siagian] tried to handle that issue: how to work very fast, how to engage journalists. I know it was a very difficult time for Indonesia but as ambassador he handled it in a very good way. My post in Australia gave me so many experiences that bring me to this point."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This point is, of course, Retno's role as Indonesia's first female foreign affairs minister. This time last year, Retno was one of eight women sworn in to President Joko Widodo's cabinet. Prior to this she had been Indonesia's ambassador to the Netherlands. "Mrs Retno is a career diplomat," Jokowi - as he is popularly known - said at the time. "She works hard and strong, she is visionary."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Her diplomatic skills would soon be tested. Within months, Australia's relationship with Indonesia was once again rocky, after Jokowi refused the clemency pleas of Bali nine heroin smugglers Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott did not help matters when he reminded Indonesia of the $1 billion of Australian aid given after the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami in a clumsy attempt to fight for the men's lives. The comments spawned a #KoinuntukAbbott (Coins for Abbott) social media campaign, which asked people to hand over their spare change to "pay back" the tsunami aid.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Then in June, Indonesian police reported an Australian official had paid people smugglers to return a <b>boat</b> of <b>asylum</b> seekers to Indonesia - allegations never denied by Abbott. "From ourselves the evidence is very obvious. But of course we want to get the information from the Australian side," Retno says. "But it seems there is very minimum information that the Australian authorities could share with Indonesia. But we expressed our concern obviously at that time. I think the message has been conveyed clearly to Australia."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Retno believes there is an intensity to the relationship between the two countries, due to the close geographical proximity and the many differences. "The closer you are the more challenges you have, of course." But she stresses the importance of a close relationship - for trade, stability in the region and co-operation in areas including counter-terrorism and people smuggling.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I think from the conversation we have had, it's clear the intention of Indonesia to strengthen the bilateral relation with Australia," Retno says. "We couldn't afford to have a bad relationship with Australia and I'm sure Australia has the same view towards Indonesia. So let's do it together, let's co-operate to bring the benefit of the bilateral relationship to contribute to the region's peace and prosperity."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Through all the dog days, the relationship between Retno and her counterpart, Julie Bishop, has remained strong. Both women were the first female foreign affairs ministers of their countries, both are keen exercisers (Retno told The Jakarta Post in 2012 she jogged five kilometres every day) and they share a passion for unconventional forms of ministerial communication.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Retno Marsudi and I keep in constant contact, we're text buddies - much to the chagrin of our diplomats," Bishop said. It's this open line that Retno appreciates. "I am very happy with the fact that whatever the situation is I always have good communication with Julie Bishop," she says. "God willing, it will help us to solve the problem."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One area in which the two countries work closely together is countering terrorism. Retno is passionate about the role of women in fighting extremism. Her logic, she says, is simple. "Women bring up children, so the mother is the one who injects all the values since the very beginning. Since an early age my mum always mentioned the importance of tolerance, the importance to maintain harmony, never talk about differences with others. And here I am."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indonesia and Australia are co-chairs of one of the Global Counter-terrorism Forum's working groups: Detention and Reintegration. Last month Bishop told a high-level counter-terrorism meeting hosted by the US Secretary of State John Kerry that Australia and Indonesia would work together to rehabilitate hundreds of convicted terrorists expected to be released from Indonesian prisons in the coming years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It has been suggested that foreign policy under the Jokowi administration has moved away from former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's "one thousand friends and zero enemies" style of diplomacy, to more targeted allegiances with countries such as China.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Retno says Indonesia's bebas aktif (free, active) foreign policy remains the same because it is mandated by the constitution. "We call it the down to earth diplomacy, to make things easier." She says this means foreign policy should reflect the national interest of the people with three main priorities: protecting Indonesia's territorial integrity, protecting Indonesian nationals and strengthening economic diplomacy. "And we are open, very open, to any country because our foreign policy is bebas and aktif, free and active."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australian media tends to focus on the three Bs: Bali, beef and boats. Retno would like to see a fuller picture - one that tells of the country's rambunctious democracy, the pluralism of the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation, the tolerance of its people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For Retno, Australia will always be the place where her second son was born. As a young mother she was impressed with Canberra. "It's not that crowded but you can find almost everything there, it's a bit quiet, you have so many spacious public facilities. So that's an ideal place for family life." Retno never returned to Canberra after her four-year posting ended. Her second son is a doctor. "So it is my dream that one day I will take my family back to Canberra and show him the hospital he was born in."</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>ANZAC ROUTE TO EUROPE</span>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1303 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>17 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian Financial Review</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AFNR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>19</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2015. Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turkey</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The new route for people smugglers runs through waters well known to Australians, writes Geoff Winestock.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The people smuggler, dressed in a crisp pink sports shirt with his white Audi parked behind, is sitting about four metres away on a hill above the Mediterranean, talking on his mobile phone as he surveys the progress of two inflatable rafts packed with refugees rolling towards Greece. There are three other boats, hidden in a cove down at the shore, waiting to set off.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His problem is that clearly visible in the distance is a Turkish Coast Guard <b>boat</b> patrolling the strait, which could decide to stop the entire fleet. One of the two boats already at sea has stalled and is floundering halfway between the Turkish coast and the Greek island of Lesbos. He has to decide whether to give the order for the other three boats to set off or abort the mission.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It seems like there is a problem. One of them has just stopped," he can be heard telling his accomplices on the mobile phone.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Let's wait for a while and let at least one of them pass safely," he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The fact that the AFR Weekend can listen in to this conversation for about 10 minutes after parking our rental car nearby is evidence of how brazen the people trade is in this part of Turkey.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The scene is the picturesque fishing village of Assos, at the closest point to Lesbos on this part of the Turkish coast. It is about an hour's drive south from the provincial capital of Canakkale, known to many Australians who visit the gravesite the Turks built to honour their fallen in the Gallipoli campaign. The scrabbly hillside where the people smuggler is perched looks just like the slopes the Anzacs ran up a century ago.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Refugees have shifted here recently from routes hundreds of kilometres further south around Bodrum, where the body of three-year-old Ayla Kurdi washed up in August. The opening of the new Canakkale route made grim headlines in Turkey last month when 13 refugees, including several children, drowned after their <b>boat</b> collided with a commercial ship. The bodies were taken back to Canakkale by the Turkish Coast Guard.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">European Union</span> wants tougher action to crack down on the people-smuggling trade in Turkey, which has transported more than 600,000 refugees in 2015 to Greece then on to Europe. At a summit on Friday EU leaders met to devise a plan to stop the refugees leaving Turkish water for Greece and they are expected to offer Turkey billions of euros to "stop the boats", in a deal similar to Australia's offshore solutions with Indonesia, Nauru and Cambodia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Turkish government says it welcomes more help housing the 2 million refugees who have come to Turkey from the Syrian civil war. But it says it can do little to police a thousand-kilometre coastal border intertwined with hundreds of islands.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is true that the 15-kilometre voyage from Canakkale to Greece across this narrow strait is far shorter than the ocean passage to Australia from Java or Sri Lanka. Standing at Assos in Turkey, mobile phone coverage switches to a Greek service provider. Lesbos can be seen clearly in the distance and the water of the Aegean is glassy and flat, and probably fairly safe. Even a rubber <b>boat</b> with an outboard motor could make the trip in a few hours.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On the other hand, if Turkey wants to stop the trade, it would not require great sleuthing skills to track down this end point of the pipeline of refugees, which starts deep inside Turkey closer to the Syrian border.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sefik Sezer, 56, a Turkish handyman digging a trench outside a tourist campground, volunteered the names of Assos and other villages that smugglers use as launch sites. The day before, he said, a truck full of refugees pulled up in front of the restaurant of his neighbour, who had to plead with the driver not to abandon them there because it annoyed tourists.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Two weeks ago Mr Sezer went to a restaurant to fix a door and a Syrian <b>refugee</b> walked up and asked for water. Mr Sezer said he declined to help the Syrian because he was worried the local police might think he was involved with the people traffickers. "We feel sorry for them but we also feel fed up with this endless crisis," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Locals on the road say they are pestered by minibus and taxi drivers with license plates showing they come from Izmir or far-off Istanbul, asking directions to Assos or Gulpinar, another convenient launch site. At Assos, in the morning the AFR Weekend visits, at least five mini-buses and one bus turn up outside the ancient stone fort and amphitheatre on top of the hill, behind where the people smuggler is sitting.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They drop off refugees, who then trudge on a dirt track down the scrubby slope to the cove, where the next wave of boats is waiting. There is only a token effort made to conceal what is going on. A man who gives his name as Abassem and says he is Palestinian, carrying a suitcase on his shoulders, is asked where he is going. "Just some shopping and smoking," he says, before hoisting his suitcase back on to his shoulder and setting off through the scrub to the shore.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the old fishing port of Assos, tourists sitting at tables with white cloths can look out over the breakwater and see the <b>refugee</b> boats rolling on the waves. Locals say it is better not to approach the launch areas or the people smugglers because gunfire can be heard from time to time. The coast guard rescues or interdicts at least some of the refugees. In the evening, the AFR Weekend sees about 200 refugees being loaded into buses outside the coast guard station at Kucukkuyu, about 50 kilometres away. Turkey is sensitive to claims it tolerates people smuggling. One coast guard officer who asks not to be named says: "Please write that we spend a lot of time and effort on this issue. Some coast guard officers don't see their families, because the forces here are not enough."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Once they are seized, the refugees are taken to a holding facility at Ayacik, on the road back to Canakkale, and eventually they are sent back to somewhere deep inside Turkey. Tuncay Ergin, a local bus driver, says Istanbul and Izmir will no longer accept refugees, so he has to drive them to Ankara, about eight hours away. Up to 600 refugees are shipped out of Canakkale each day, he says. Refugees pay the people smugglers about $1000 to $1500 to make the trip but some pay $10,000 for VIP trips, where there are only three or four people on the <b>boat</b> and it is almost certain they will cross.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Turkish government promised early in 2015 to build a <b>refugee</b> centre in Canakkale to house people transiting through the region. After the drownings in September, local MP Bulent Turan told the Hurriyet newspaper, "The project will provide employment opportunities to local people."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But when the AFR Weekend visits the compound at the nearby town of Ayvacik, there is no sign of any building and scores of refugees are standing in the hot sun behind steel bars and barbed wire, with little cover. Police say inmates are fed regularly but refuse to allow photos or interviews.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One young man standing in the sun, with his arms through metal bars, shouts in English: "I am from Iraq. <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span> killed my father and mother. I am human like you."</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Welcome placemat put out to train refugees</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Suzanne Carbone   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>445 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>17 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>20</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Restaurant diners with a social conscience analyse the food miles but the wagyu beef and organic baby vegetables are not the only elements that have journeyed to the table.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some staff have clocked up thousands of miles in often perilous journeys by <b>boat</b> as refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers to reach the peace and safety of Australia. Relieved to set foot on our multicultural shore, they are referred to a hospitality training program run by the Scarf social enterprise.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the Empress Hotel in North Fitzroy, eight trainees report to work every Tuesday for 10 weeks and are mentored by industry professionals in front-of-house skills. After setting the table and having a menu briefing, they serve dinner at 6pm and earn a wage from the $40 two-course set menu, created by head chef Lucy Warner, and the overall bill.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia is very much the lucky country for Melesse Asayhe, a 20-year-old Ethiopian who fled Sudan with his family 10 years ago. Mature for his age, he works the floor like a professional. There to guide him is lead mentor Christos Vafeas.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Asayhe's friend suggested the Scarf course and he jumped at the opportunity for free training. "This is a chance for me to work in a restaurant as a waiter," he said. "I like to serve. I like to provide customer service."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Scarf was founded in 2010 by Hannah Colman and Jess Moran to create opportunities for young people who faced barriers in the workforce. The experience has boosted confidence, enhanced resumes and improved English language skills. So far, 80 trainees aged 18 to 28 have been mentored and 70 per cent of graduates have found work.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A Scarf graduate living his dream is Negasi Tesfay, a 20-year-old Ethiopian who arrived in Australia in 2011. After finishing the training in May, he got a casual job at the Manchester Lane bar Shebeen, a not-for-profit social enterprise that donates all profit to causes that aid the developing world.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Tesfay was grateful for the training and was fortunate to be mentored by Shebeen's Heather Garland, who helped him get the job. "The training gave me confidence with English skills and I like mixing with people from different backgrounds," Mr Tesfay said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nathan Toleman, who runs Top Paddock in Richmond and the Kettle Black in South Melbourne, became a Scarf ambassador because he wanted to "give back" to the industry. "The industry needs committed, hard-working people with a desire to learn. Anyone who shows those characteristics should be given a chance."</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Turnbull caught between party line and a public that wants change</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Mark Kenny is chief political correspondent.  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>953 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was always going to be an instructive week. A new ministry would be attempting to start out as it meant to continue. And an opposition would be prowling for vulnerabilities, anxious to expose any thinness in detail or spin masquerading as substance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Amid the early jousting, a couple of questions-without-notice did more than most to define the character of the new Prime Minister's nascent leadership, and the extent to which it has forced changes on his opponents too. Both are works in progress.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Monday brought a query from Greens MP Adam Bandt which probed the presumed gap between hardline Abbott policies on <b>asylum</b> seekers and Malcolm Turnbull's own views: "Prime Minister, will you accept that previous Labor and Liberal governments got it wrong, and will you release all children from detention?"</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But if it was a softening on <b>asylum</b> seekers that the Greens hoped to uncover, it did the opposite with Turnbull playing an even higher moral card. Yes, the policy was "tough", even "harsh", but "people had died" under previous policies. Offshore detention, third country resettlement, and <b>boat</b> turnarounds, had saved lives.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"This is not a theoretical exercise, and I have to say to the honourable member he should reflect very seriously on his own party's conscience on this vital matter". It was an ominous slap down.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Tuesday, the first of many questions from Bill Shorten on superannuation sought Turnbull's attitude to people on large incomes exploiting tax concessions as legalised tax havens. Here, Turnbull jettisoned Abbott's combative script, which had blithely surrendered billions in future revenue simply to wedge Labor as the party of higher tax and class envy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I've noted the opposition's proposals and we're clearly going to consider those proposals and any other proposals that are made as we review the situation." It was a significant concession, coming as it did on the same day that Turnbull would also call off the dogs on the China-Australia free trade agreement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Both moves demonstrate the multiple ways in which the Turnbull administration is busily untying itself from past strictures, disentangling from pointless fights. Turnbull's judgments about what to keep, and what to cast off will be critical to his success.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On this, all sides agree, which is why his opponents are attempting to force the pace. Issue by issue, they want Turnbull to choose between appeasing his more conservative base on the one hand, and thereby disappointing voters, or, on the other hand, parading his more moderate/popular views on climate change and social policy, thereby losing his colleagues - as he had in 2009 as opposition leader.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is Turnbull's "Rubik's Cube". A puzzle in which he must somehow satisfy four competing ends: First, reunite his riven party room. Second, initiate changes that justify his ascension. Third, reassure a wary electorate that he is not merely Tony Abbott in a better suit (noting that even at 50-50 in this week's Newspoll, that still represents a 3.5 per cent swing against the Coalition). And fourth, reconcile all of the above with the runaway expectations of most voters.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So, how significant is this expectation problem? For the first time, its scale can be quantified. National polling commissioned by <span class="companylink">The Australia Institute</span>, an independent think tank, shows voters across the board do indeed have high expectations of Turnbull, and crucially, they do want him to act. It means Turnbull is already behind the eight ball.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Taken from September 28 to October 9, the Research Now poll asked: "Do you think Malcolm Turnbull should take stronger action in the following areas, even if there is opposition within his own party?" The question was applied to five policy fields.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In every category, the majority answered yes. More humane policies on refugees registered a 55 per cent approval; marriage equality 61 per cent; climate change 67 per cent; and more money for schools, 76 per cent. Even among Liberal voters, support is at or above 50 per cent on each issue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On renewable energy, the desire for "stronger action" is 81 per cent, and drops by a mere 6 points when Liberals alone are counted. "The research shows that Malcolm Turnbull has considerable support, both in the wider community and in the Coalition voter base, to do more on issues like renewables, refugees, equal marriage, and Gonski," Ben Oquist, the executive director of The Australia Institute, said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is no accident that these are the same issues on which Abbott had decided to defy community sentiment. The ANU's Marija Taflaga predicts the shift to Turnbull will place big strains on the party in the short term, but says it might also drag it from the margins on key policies to the centre where elections are won.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The PhD candidate, whose research focuses on the Liberals, said: "The Liberal Party loves a winner and has a long-standing habit of allowing its philosophical image to be symbolised by such leaders. Should Turnbull be successful, this might see the party move on from its awkward mix of neo-liberal economics and social conservatism back to liberalism and a more traditional interpretation of conservatism, more like David Cameron in the UK."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull, who in the past has been more of a "me" than a "we" kind of leader, acknowledges the problem, telling his MPs this week that expectations on them were "enormous", while also reassuring them that his chief advisers would be his ministers. The shift from the staff-driven Abbott office could not have been clearer.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>CO</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>taiact : The Australia Institute</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gpol : Domestic Politics | nedc : Commentaries/Opinions | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfcpex : C&E Executive News Filter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document SMHH000020151015ebag0005o</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-SMHH000020151015ebag0005p" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Opinion - Opinion</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Smallness of politics exposed, once again</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Waleed Aly is a Fairfax Media columnist.  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1078 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's easy to forget there was a time that we didn't justify our <b>asylum</b> seeker policies by claiming they were "stopping deaths at sea". Once upon the Howard era, we were candid enough to say flat out it was a bald assertion of sovereignty, bolstered by a general hunch we didn't really like these people very much.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That's what the whole "children overboard" thing was about, really: one final overstatement in a relentlessly prosecuted argument that <b>boat</b> people weren't really people at all. Hence: queue jumpers, possibly terrorists, the kind of unscrupulous cynics who'd drop their kids in the ocean if it helped them cheat their way in.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Viewed through that history we can see just how remarkable the transformation has been. "Deaths at sea" allowed us to take a crassly nationalistic argument and turn it instead into a moral one. The odd "economic refugees" or "Christians only" snipe aside, we stopped attacking refugees directly and attacked people smugglers instead. Brutality was transformed into a kind of muscular compassion, and every confirmation of the psychological (and sometimes physical) destruction of people under our jurisdiction was rendered a sober necessity. Deterrence, no matter what horrors it entailed, became the only moral position. That, insisted Malcolm Turnbull this week, is "the melancholy truth".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And it is precisely this that makes the current refusal of doctors at <span class="companylink">Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital</span> to discharge their <b>asylum</b>-seeker patients if they are to be returned to immigration detention so potent. In a debate that is so constant and repetitive it has become mere auditory wallpaper, theirs is the most disruptive intervention in years. And that's because it is so explicitly not political.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is ostensibly a clinical decision: doctors insisting detention would further damage those under their care, and who are therefore bound not to subject them to it. But beneath every clinical judgment lies an ethical one, too. That's why doctors swear oaths. Medicine is more than a technocratic application of treatments; it is the practice of an ethos of service and care. When doctors declare they cannot return patients to immigration detention, they are saying it would be immoral for them to do so: a violation of their covenant.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Government policy cannot simply trump such oaths. It cannot erase the age-old ethical foundations of an entire profession. And that is why the doctors' stance is so impervious to the predictable retorts of politics. No amount of invoking "deaths at sea" can compel a doctor to harm her patient. We're witnessing two contrasting moral languages here that proceed from different assumptions of what constitutes the good. And there's a lot we can learn from identifying those differences.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The doctors' moral focus is on the individual patient. They do not ask, for example, whether that patient is worthy of treatment. They don't give less care to an abusive drunkard than to an altruistic social worker. They don't refuse to treat an elderly patient simply because it might be more productive to prioritise treating younger people with their prime decades still in front of them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They reject any notion that a "lesser" person should be sacrificed for the benefit of someone - or something - "greater". Their morality is about the unquestioned dignity of the person before them; a dignity that exists for no reason other than that this is a human being in need of care.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In this sense it has clear liberal (or perhaps personalist) overtones. And for that reason, it is far from niche. This idea - that each individual is sacred; that no individual can simply be sacrificed in order save others - lies at the heart of our civilisation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's the reason we've prohibited torture. It's why we've abandoned the death penalty in this country, no matter the crime. Indeed, it's the basis of the whole idea of human rights, which this nation was so instrumental in distilling into law. It's meant to be the basis on which we do our public reasoning. So it's hugely significant that right now, it's also the opposite of the argument our politicians are running.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Deaths at sea" only masks the nature of the morality we're adopting here. So let's be clear what it ultimately means: that we sacrifice some people for the sake of others. That individual people will be brutalised and occasionally destroyed, so that others' lives may be saved.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I cannot claim there's no moral case to be made to that effect at all (although I doubt the claim there is simply no other way to save these lives). It's just that it is a starkly utilitarian one: greatest good for the greatest number, and all that.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That might be fine if it's a moral vision we habitually adopt, but it's not. We don't, say, force people to donate their organs, even though this would save lives. As a nation we've typically rejected this sort of approach because it has a nasty habit of being unprincipled. It's the morality that can make anything from slavery, to torture, to Stalinism possible: an ethos that has no rules, only results; where nothing has intrinsic value except whatever "greater good" you wish to serve.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Under this sort of cover, almost any atrocity can be sanctified. And if it can do even that sort of heavy lifting, then what's the mental disintegration of a few hundred <b>asylum</b> seekers - whether they're children or not?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That's how we've reached the point where we no longer even need to pretend our detention centres are anything other than (in Patrick McGorry's phrase) "factories for producing mental illness". We've developed a morality that can absorb that. We just can't recognise how dramatic that is because our political debate is incapable of teasing out the moral assumptions that made that possible.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But every now and then something happens that reveals the smallness of politics. Perhaps we shouldn't be altogether surprised that this time it was the stand of a few Melbourne doctors. After all, they clearly understand the ethics on which their profession is based. Their clarity leaves us with the question of whether the rest of us can make anything like the same claim.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Lesson in sadism now learnt</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>749 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Hobart Mercury</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>MRCURY</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Hobart</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>17</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>ASYLUM</b> SEEKERS Lesson in sadism now learnt NOW that we are increasing our <b>refugee</b> intake it is well beyond time to release and accept the refugees now suffering life imprisonment in our offshore jails. They are a small proportion of the thousands we will be accepting. The only “crime” of which they were ever guilty was that they happened to reach Australia just when we decided to act tough.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even murderers get let out of prison after a set term. Many of these refugees have already served several years in what all neutral observers (now banned from visiting) have condemned as inadequate jails with sometimes brutal jailers. Surely they have suffered enough.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is no longer necessary to use these people as an example, the message to prospective <b>boat</b> people has been made clear — trying to come here unlicensed will result in what is effectively torture.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Putting the camps on Nauru and Manus into dormancy would save a great deal of money, which could go to relieving suffering among refugees elsewhere, and it will recognise the present inmates as human beings, not merely as a lesson in the sadism that others can expect if they try to come here unlicensed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Godfrey Mt Stuart</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">United Nations I THANK Peter D. Jones (Letters, October 12) for replying to my letter (Letters, October 5) asking who is responsible for the United Nations’ edicts. The question was rhetorical, as most people are aware of the fact. The problem is who enforces these edicts? Mr Jones acknowledges this. I quote part of his letter: “The problem is that though countries may have agreed to it there is no mechanism for enforcing it.” I am extremely pleased that this is so on recognising countries that comprise the United Nations Human Rights committee such as Saudi Arabia and China. Looking at the nations making up the United Nations such as the Islamic countries, many African nations, many Asian and American nations, many European nations, I am glad they have no input to Australian laws.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Our country does not count on rights but on laws passed by our elected representatives which we hope vote for proper responsibilities to be taken to gain the privileges of our freedoms.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Our laws are enforced by our police and judiciary, about which I am mostly proud. I suggest the United Nations be looked on as a failure such as was the League of Nations.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Countries belonging to the United Nations do not have the altruistic ideas that were expressed at its formation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Charles Rankin Mt Nelson</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Not an option READER Robert Rodway (Letters, October 9) wants <b>asylum</b> seekers to line up outside Australian embassies to apply for a visa before they seek <b>asylum</b> in Australia. Apart from disregarding Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which Australia signed in 1948, I get the impression that your correspondent has never met an <b>asylum</b> seeker to ask why they did not go through the legal system in the way he thinks they should.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As one <b>asylum</b> seeker put it in Hobart recently: “If your house is on fire, you just go out the first door you can to escape.” Ask a Hazara from Afghanistan, a Syrian <b>refugee</b> or a Rohingya from Burma why they did not go to the Australian embassy first and they will patiently explain to you why this was not an option in their country.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Peadar MacEoin Primrose Sands</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull’s test A RAPED <b>asylum</b> seeker in Nauru is carrying the baby of the rapist. She is asking to come to Australia for an abortion. Most Australians will decry the rape, the consequences of it and the incarceration of <b>asylum</b> seekers in detention centres, they will feel sympathy for the women.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">No doubt Border Force will deny anything happened. Our Immigration Minister Peter Dutton will say that he cannot give any information about what happened because that will breach security. This could be the biggest test for Malcolm Turnbull. What will he do?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ike Naqvi Tinderbox</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Messy THE images shown on television and in the paper of many thousands of men, women and children trying to get to their preferred country in Europe is indeed distressing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, it is to be hoped that they have more respect for their preferred country than the ones they are transiting, judging by the huge amount of rubbish they are leaving behind for their non-preferred country to clean after the exodus.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Alan LeitchAustins Ferry</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Mark Russell   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>508 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>15</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Surgeon assault - Mental impairment ruling</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The man accused of attempting to murder neurosurgeon Michael Wong at Western Hospital in Footscray during a frenzied attack will not stand trial because he is mentally ill.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Crown prosecutor Richard Pirrie told the Supreme Court on Monday that Director of Public Prosecutions John Champion, SC, had accepted Kareem Al-Salami was mentally impaired when he attacked Dr Wong.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Al-Salami, 50, of Sunshine, knifed Dr Wong in the back as the doctor arrived for work, before repeatedly stabbing him. He had been due to stand trial next month until Mr Champion accepted the opinions of two psychiatrists who believed he was psychotic at the time.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Pirrie told the court the facts in the case were not disputed but there was some question over which charges would ultimately proceed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Defence barrister Simon Moglia said he needed at least two weeks to discuss with the prosecution what charges Mr Al-Salami would face but did not expect much disagreement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Al-Salami had been facing 26 charges, including attempting to murder Dr Wong, intentionally causing serious injury and assaulting other hospital staff on February 18, 2014.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Justice Elizabeth Hollingworth set down December 14 for a one-day consent mental impairment hearing and asked that the two psychiatrists who had interviewed Mr Al-Salami be available in case she had any questions for them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Justice Hollingworth will then decide how long Mr Al-Salami, who arrived by <b>boat</b> on Christmas Island as an <b>asylum</b> seeker in 2010 before being granted a temporary protection visa allowing him to stay in Australia indefinitely, should be held in custody.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A police summary tendered during an earlier court hearing revealed Mr Al-Salami had been a patient of Dr Wong's and blamed him for his chronic neck, back and leg pain. Mr Al-Salami had sent letters of complaint about Dr Wong to Western Hospital's health manager, the Health Services Commissioner and the Minister for Health. The next appointment Mr Al-Salami had scheduled with Dr Wong was on February 18, 2014, at 9.15am at Western Hospital.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dr Wong was walking through the hospital foyer about 8.25am when Mr Al-Salami stabbed him in the back with a 19cm stainless steel knife.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dr Wong fell to the ground and Mr Al-Salami, according to the police summary, "started stabbing the victim ... taking two or three swipes at him with the knife".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When a patient being treated for chronic lymphocytic leukaemia called out, Mr Al-Salami threatened him with a knife.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Police said Mr Al-Salami then stabbed and slashed Dr Wong to the face, chest, hands, forearms, torso, stomach and legs 25 to 30 times.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Three people tried to drag Dr Wong away, but Mr Al-Salami threatened them before stabbing Dr Wong in the neck. Dr Wong was eventually taken away for surgery. He has since regained movement in his arms and hands, allowing him to return to work.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What changes can we expect when parliament resumes today?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The four pillars of this parliamentary week will centre on the policy as well as the political contest. How does the government regroup in the wake of the change of prime minister? Within that, the spectre of Tony Abbott on the backbench will be powerful — how his allies respond to the reshuffle and how the new ministers perform will be closely watched by all and sundry.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On the Labor side of parliament the reaction to the changed political circumstances will be equally important. Does Bill Shorten come under renewed pressure with improved performances by the Coalition? Today’s Newspoll sees Malcolm Turnbull’s honeymoon extended by another week (he leads Shorten as preferred PM by 57 to 19 per cent), and the new government frontbench line-up may put pressure on the Labor line-up, which hasn’t much changed from Labor’s time in ­government under the prime ­ministerships of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The policy debates will focus on trade, with the signing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership last week and ongoing disagreements over the China free-trade agreement likely to dominate question time in both houses of parliament. Trade Minister Andrew Robb used an appearance on Sky News’s Australian Agenda yesterday to spruik the potential of these agreements in the aftermath of the mining boom, as long as all sides of the ­debate embrace what’s on offer.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Finally, the threat of terrorism has moved sharply back into focus. The murder of police accountant Curtis Cheng in Parramatta by a 15 year-old boy has seen politicians try to delicately balance the need for tough rhetoric in the face of radicalism with calls for calm and tolerance within our broader multicultural community.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It will be a busy legislative week and the politics within these four pillars will be pivotal to which side of politics builds momentum as we ebb towards the end of the year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The treaties committee is due to report back this week on the China FTA as the contested portions of the agreement come into sharper focus. “It is a huge week for trade, dominated by debate of the legislation which will authorise the free-trade agreement with China”, Robb tells The Australian. “Finally, Labor has to stand up.” The areas of disagreement centre on provisions for foreign workers. In Labor’s and the unions’ view there are threats to Australian jobs. This is denied by the government, of course, and most free-trade experts — such as Alan Oxley, who chairs the <span class="companylink">APEC</span> Study Centre at <span class="companylink">RMIT University</span> — say the benefits of the agreement far outweigh any concerns about it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But this hasn’t dampened the Labor case: “Australians have raised legitimate concerns about protections for Australian workers” in the China FTA, opposition spokeswoman on trade Penny Wong tells The Australian.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Both sides of politics are prepared to argue the benefits as well as the risks of the China FTA, in a debate that until recently has involved accusations of xenophobia being levelled in both directions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Malcolm Turnbull has an opportunity to show he’s not like Tony Abbott , and sit down with Labor to discuss our complementary safeguards”, Wong says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull has already sought to dampen the rhetoric of racism, preferring to focus on the ­substance of the agreement when arguing the case.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Manager of Government Business in the house, Christopher Pyne, has set the week’s parliamentary tactics firmly in this space: “The focus of the week will be the ChAFTA and explaining the Trans-Pacific Partnership”, he tells The Australian.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The benefits of freer trade to jobs and growth are very real and that will be clear this week.” While trade talk will be the dominant policy debate of the parliamentary week, the political machinations will also be fascinating. Turnbull will, for the first time, front the parliament with his newly calibrated ministerial line-up. A host of fresh faces will occupy the frontbench, with further major adjustments within the line-up that was already there. Newcomers such as Kelly O’Dwyer and Christian Porter may be tested by Labor questions in the lower house, and George Brandis will front his first question time in the Senate as the new leader, supported by the Finance Minister and now deputy leader in the Senate, Mathias Cormann, when he ­returns from Lima midway through the week.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One Abbott supporter isn’t convinced that Brandis has what it takes to negotiate improved policy positions with the crossbenchers, one of the areas in which Turnbull supporters have suggested the new PM is likely to do better than Team ­Abbott was able to.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I am interested to see if the rhetoric on better relations with the crossbench is delivered upon,” the Liberal backbencher says. “With George ‘people have a right to be bigots’ Brandis leading the charge, I’m not confident.” Clearly emotions are still raw after the leadership showdown and the reallocation of portfolios thereafter.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And of course a new treasurer will be in the spotlight. Angst over Joe Hockey’s performance was considered to be a major problem for Team Abbott ahead of the coup. Scott Morrison will want to start well when Shorten and Chris Bowen decide to send questions his way during the week.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the Labor focus will inevitably be on the new Prime Minister. The Manager of Opposition Business in the House, Tony Burke, tells The Australian: “Malcolm Turnbull has tried to be all things to all people for a long time. Now he has to front the parliament, it will start catching up with him.” This suggests the Labor researchers have used the three-week recess to sharpen their lines of attack against Turnbull, planning to try to expose any inconsistencies in his rhetoric over the years. Climate change may therefore get another run, as it did in the first partial week when Turnbull seized the prime ministership from Abbott.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott didn’t attend question time at all the week after his removal by colleagues. He took to the airwaves the following week to defend his legacy, as well as take a few calculated snipes at his colleagues over the way in which he was removed from power. The imagery of Abbott on the backbench, indeed walking the corridors of parliament, will be beamed into the living rooms of Australians this week, some of whom no doubt are still wondering how it came to be that Abbott suffered the same fate as Kevin Rudd in his first term.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Saturday, Turnbull was booed when he fronted the NSW state Liberal Council, in a sure sign that tensions continue to run high, notwithstanding the bounce in the polls. Certainly within the Liberal Party organisation. Right-wing shock jocks have also continued to maintain the rage.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The changing of the guard has included federal director Brian Loughnane’s announcement that he will stand down from his position in January. His likely replacement, former John Howard chief of staff and current NSW state director Tony Nutt, received a ringing endorsement yesterday from Robb, himself a former federal director of the party.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nationals frontbencher Bar­naby Joyce captured the tensions the government will need to manage in the week ahead when he said: “It’s going to be the first week back at school, which of course is going to test the character of the new members and former members of cabinet.” The likes of Kevin Andrews, dumped from the defence portfolio despite desperate lobbying to retain his position, have been anything but gracious in defeat. But Joyce also captured what may be the marker that unifies the government despite the wounds from last month’s leadership showdown: “I am absolutely certain there is not one member of the government who wants the Labor Party to be the next government.” Focusing on Labor will be on the minds of government MPs even if the style Turnbull seeks to adopt treats the opposition like an afterthought. While the government will be the focus of attention after the changes of the past month, Labor and Shorten in particular will be under pressure also.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The polls have shifted, including today’s Newspoll, exposing Shorten’s personal unpopularity and the weakness of the Labor primary vote. These were masked when Shorten was facing off against Abbott. Now the government and the Labor Party are neck and neck on the two-party vote, with Turnbull’s net satisfaction rating a whopping 50 points ahead of Shorten’s.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The opposition must change its approach if it wants to keep the pressure on the new Prime Minister. Shorten’s unpopularity was a secondary issue when Abbott’s ratings were so poor. Unless internal divisions or ongoing woeful salesmanship bring Turnbull down to earth, Labor will need to do something to try to elevate its leader as a viable alternative prime minister.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The first example of Labor realising that it needs to be bolder in the face of the change the Liberals have made came last week with the major infrastructure announcement made out of Brisbane. It will be interesting to see if that policy script receives attention this week or sinks like a stone, given the myriad other issues dominating the agenda.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">National security has been an ongoing issue this term of government, both following the MH17 disaster and the Lindt cafe siege in Sydney at the end of last year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The events in Parramatta have highlighted just how serious the threat of terrorism is domestically, with no quick fix available. It is an issue that stokes much fear in the community.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There were some concerns within the government that Turnbull’s initial response “lacked leadership”, as one MP put it. But his media conference last Friday ­appeared to strike a delicate balance between tough rhetoric and an understanding of the complexities involved in doing more than simply ­responding to events as they ­unfold.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Unearthing how to weed radicalisation from the Muslim community needs to be the ­primary focus, which will require co-operation instead of isolating Australian Muslims.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While national security will focus on terrorism and the responses to it from our security agencies, the debate over <b>asylum</b>- seeker processing and management of <b>boat</b> arrivals will continue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Peter Dutton retained the Immigration portfolio after the change of prime minister, which was something cooler heads in the government had lobbied Turnbull to ensure. Dutton is one of the so- called “hard men” within the government, well suited to the difficult task of managing Operation Sovereign Borders. The High Court will deliver its verdict on the challenge over Nauru any day now and, depending on that outcome, this policy issue may once again return to centre stage.Coalition policy on countering people-smugglers will be intensively observed by Turnbull’s Right flank following the change of prime minister. Stopping the boats was undoubtedly Abbott’s greatest achievement as prime minister; it’s not something Turnbull wants to be seen to have failed to emulate, that’s for sure.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Man killed in ‘callous, vicious’ bottle attack Two men have been arrested after a man was killed in a “callous and vicious” attack with a bottle in Sydney’s southwest. A 24-year-old man handed himself to police at Campsie yesterday afternoon, while a 48-year-old man, arrested in raids on three properties, was in custody last night. It is believed the 45-year-old victim was chatting with his partially deaf father when he was stabbed in the neck with a bottle outside his unit block in Lakemba early yesterday. The men were confronted by a third man for talking too loudly and apparently agreed to quieten down, police said, but seconds later, the 45-year-old was “callously and viciously” assaulted in an unprovoked attack, Superintendent Michael McLean said. He was found bleeding from the neck and died at the scene.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Protesters rally in support of refugees More than 1000 Sydneysiders rallied in support of refugees yesterday and to push for the end of mandatory detention. The crowd, including unions and various social and political groups, gathered at the city’s Town Hall. They waved banners that read “welcome refugees from Syria” and “close Manus. Close Nauru. Welcome refugees” while waiting to hear from speakers including Greens senator Lee Rhiannon and Syrian <b>refugee</b> Abdul Hakim. Mounted police and other officers were on patrol but there were no signs of trouble at the rally, part of a national campaign organised by the <b>Refugee</b> Action Coalition. The group is seeking support to stop <b>boat</b> turnbacks, close the Manus Island and Nauru detention centres and increase Australia’s intake of refugees. Similar rallies are planned in Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra and Perth in the coming weeks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">‘Bow and arrow’ threat quelled by police A man has been charged with several offences after he allegedly set a dog on to a police officer and threatened people with a bow and arrow. The 23-year-old ran into a house when police arrived at a unit complex at Marks Point, south of Newcastle, on Saturday and moments later his dog attacked a police dog and its handler. Police said an officer shot the dog dead and arrested the man after a short chase. He was charged with several offences including assaulting a police officer and damaging property.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Cops chase down a lurking ‘firebug’ A man who allegedly lit fires and resisted arrest in NSW’s Hunter region faced court yesterday. On Saturday afternoon firefighters were called to the Pacific Highway at Belmont to put out fires in a stormwater drain and later to other fires in nearby bushland. Firefighters reported a lurking man to police, who found him in nearby school grounds and arrested him after a short foot chase. The 26-year-old has been charged with two counts of intentionally lighting a fire, resisting arrest and trespassing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Woman, 26, diesin rescue attemptA woman died after trying to help a boy swept off rocks on the NSW north coast. The 26-year-old got into difficulty minutes after reaching the nine-year-old off Fingal Head on Saturday. Two men swam out to the pair and were joined by a police officer, who helped the uninjured boy back to the beach. The woman later died in hospital.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By Ross Peake   </td></tr>
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Diana Abdel Rahman and the Canberra Interfaith Forum's Harry Oppermann at the rally, which drew a crowd of supporters, below. Photos: JEFFREY CHAN</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By Ross Peake</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hundreds of people at a pro-<b>refugee</b> rally in Canberra on Sunday have heard a graphic description of how people are traumatised after being in a war zone. Diana Abdul Rahman, from Australian Muslim Voice in Canberra, said she and her daughter were terrified when bombs fell near their apartment in Lebanon. "I covered my daughter, who was only two years old at the time, with my body, just in case something happened," she said. "Every time a missile went off, she would jerk, sound asleep. "Until you witness [war] and until you feel it, you don't know what it feels like. You hear the sound of a missile, an eerie screech; you hear it hit a building, then sounds like breaking concrete and smashing glass. It went on all night. "I can still hear those missiles, as if</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">it happened just today." Her voice broke as she described enduring the bombardment when she lived in Lebanon and its lasting effects. "As I lay there with my daughter in my arms, I thought I would do anything to save her," she said. "I would walk, take a <b>boat</b>, I would bribe anybody, I would sell everything. So when you talk about</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">refugees as nameless entities, remember, these are people who witnessed, who saw and felt the full brunt of brutal wars. "They are not just human misery, they are individuals who once had a thriving life but were forced to make such treacherous journeys to find a better place. "Imagine yourself, losing everything overnight and having nothing to show for it." The rally also heard from Tobias Gunn, a former worker with Save The Children on Nauru, who had told <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> of seeing a toddler bashed at the detention camp.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He told the Canberra Stand Up for Refugees rally about this incident. He said he saw despair among the children in the camp. "They asked me a question that I'll die not knowing how to answer: 'why is Australia doing this to us'?" he said. Every week, two children in the camp lost hope and harmed themselves he said. "This is a place where every second day a child is assaulted." UnionsACT secretary Alex White said <b>asylum</b> seekers should be allowed to work in the community. Traffic was blocked briefly in cental Canberra as the crowd marched through city streets, chanting for refugees to be freed. In March, an independent review into sexual abuse inside the detention centre on Nauru found evidence of rape and sexual assault of minors, and guards trading marijuana for sexual favours from female detainees.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">COMMENT AT the Royal Children’s Hospital we look after children.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We provide care for all children — including children in immigration detention. It’s our job to make sure children are well, and our role and responsibility is the health and safety of children, working with others in the community, and each child’s family.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Our experience is that detention harms children and families. Many of the children in detention we see at the RCH have been there for a long time — 18 months to two years, sometimes longer.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For some children, this is more than half their lifetimes. For babies born in detention — it’s their whole life.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Detention centres have guards, fences, and checkpoints. Guards take children to school. Guards bring these children to the RCH, and stay at the door of their room or clinic for as long as the child is at the hospital.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In detention, families are not able to function. Everyday activities, that we take for granted in the community, are not possible. Parents are not able to cook for their children. They cannot take them to school, or have space to be alone as a family.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Over time, we see parents and children fall apart under this strain. They develop severe mental health problems and lose hope for the future. We see parents become overwhelmed and lose their confidence. Some parents can’t care for their children because of their own mental health problems.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Children have nightmares, bed-wetting, and behaviour problems. They develop depression and anxiety symptoms, and their development is affected. These issues are so common they’ve become normal in detention. It is difficult, if not impossible, for us to treat these children while they are still detained.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Detention centres are not safe for children. Children are exposed to the distress, violence and mental health problems of adults, and parents cannot protect their children from these circumstances.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We are concerned about the impact of detention on children. We are concerned about the children who remain in detention today.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Department of Immigration and Border Protection and the Australian people have shown compassion and leadership in response to Syrian refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Victorian Government has shown a long­standing commitment to <b>refugee</b> health. We can be proud of these responses, however we cannot lose sight of the children who remain in indefinite detention.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While many children were released earlier this year, there are still close to 100 children in detention in Australia, with a similar number on Nauru. There have been no public statistics about children in detention since May.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We are responsible for providing the best possible care to the child in front of us.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We recognise the fact that while they may be labelled an <b>asylum</b> seeker, they are a child with a family that loves and worries about them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We see an engineer and teacher with a four-year-old;; the nine-year-old who wants to play football; the single dad who is finding parenting tough.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When we use these terms to describe our patients, we acknowledge the people caught within the policies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When we use a different language to talk about these families — calling them “<b>boat</b> arrivals” or “illegal maritime arrivals” — we start to accept their situation in detention — one that we would not accept for other children, or for our own children.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We believe there are many, many Australians who share our concern. As health staff at a leading children’s hospital, our duty is to support child health.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We cannot accept or condone harm to children. Detention causes harm and it must end.We call for moral leadership on this issue to find a solution, quickly — to use alternatives to detention and to stop the harm.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Sunday Herald Sun</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>535 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>11 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PM must act now for children WHEN the Coalition Government came to power in 2013 there were almost 2000 children held in Australian detention centres.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was perhaps the greatest shame of the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd era that saw policy flip-flops and a surge in the number of <b>asylum</b> seekers heading to our shores by <b>boat</b>.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">According to a report for the National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention, the number of children in closed detention centres reached unprecedented levels in mid-2013, with 1992 minors in detention in July of that year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To its credit, the Abbott government was able to stop the flow of boats, thanks largely to the work of former immigration minister Scott Morrison. By stopping the boats, the Abbott government was also able to drastically reduce the number of children being held in detention.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">According to the last report, published by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection on June 30, there are now 215 children being held in detention — 127 in onshore facilities and 88 on Nauru. While this number represents a significant reduction, it is still 215 too many.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Today, the Sunday Herald Sun reveals the extraordinary lengths doctors at <span class="companylink">Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital</span> have been going to protect the welfare of children being held in detention.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The doctors are effectively refusing to discharge children admitted to the hospital if they know they will be returned to detention.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They believe they cannot ethically discharge patients only for them to be returned to condition they know will damage their health and safety.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The doctors say some of the patients they are treating have spent more than half their life in detention.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These are not the actions of a rogue, politically motivated few. On Friday more than 400 RCH staff stood as one to show their opposition to the detention of children.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Sunday Herald Sun believes the Abbott government was right to enforce border laws that prevented the flow of boats to this country. It was a policy that has no doubt prevented more <b>asylum</b> seekers deaths — including children — at sea. But, whatever your views, few would argue detention centres are any place for children.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Before he toppled Tony Abbott, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull made some strong comments on this issue: “Children in detention is something nobody wants. All of us as parents in particular know how anguished it must be for children to be in these circumstances.” Mr Turnbull now finds himself in a position where he can turn his words into actions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As the Australian Migration Act says, a minor should only be held in detention as a matter of last resort.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It’s time our Prime Minister got these kids out from behind bars.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">AND ANOTHER THING MELBOURNE’S reputation as Australia’s sporting capital is going from strength to strength.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The announcement we will host the 2019 President’s Cup golf tournament is the latest coup for our city, which already boasts events including the Australian Open, the Formula One Grand Prix and the Melbourne Cup.The President’s Cup will see some of golf’s biggest names in town and will be a welcome boost for tourism.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>We demand closure of detention centres</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Stephanie Rodger   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>511 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Newcastle Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NEHR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>19</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.fd.com.au[http://www.fd.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">opinion THEIR SAY</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Conditional freedom is not good enough, writes Stephanie Rodger.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">WE are nearing the end of Mental Health Week. It was also around this time, two years ago, that the legislation for Operation Sovereign Borders became law.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These two seemingly disparate facts come together under the symbol of the Resilience Sculpture recently installed on the Newcastle Foreshore.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When Operation Sovereign Borders imposed a blackout on information about these detention camps, we considered it the lowest point in our treatment of people fleeing from situations that threatened their lives. We were wrong. We had not reckoned with the Border Force Act.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So, the Resilience Sculpture testifies to not only a struggle for mental health but also the struggle in telling the truth.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Asylum</b> seekers made perilous journeys, in leaky boats, towards what they hoped would be the promise that Australia offered: welcome and security. They arrived traumatised by their losses - of members of their families, their homeland and their possessions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They were met, not with help and comfort, but with the removal of what little they had: medications, glasses, hearing aids. Even their identities were changed - they were numbered according to the <b>boat</b> they had arrived in. And they were incarcerated offshore, with inadequate shelter, in an inhospitable climate, with impersonal guards.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They were made powerless - and when people lose hope and have no control over what happens to them, they become depressed; they mutilate themselves; they cut their skin; they go on hunger strikes; they commit suicide, because their lives have become untenable. What resilience they cling to is at immense cost.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The people of Australia remain largely ignorant of this cost. What goes on in detention camps is hidden from us. They are, as Professor Patrick McGorry said, "factories for producing mental illness". They serve, as Mark Isaacs wrote of his experiences as a worker in Nauru, "to grind resilient people into dust".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Lies about <b>asylum</b> seekers still predominate: they are "illegal", they "jumped the queue", they are "terrorists". The boats were turned back, and victory was proclaimed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We may well have stopped (most of) the boats, but we have not stopped the reasons for people needing to escape the horror of war - it has just been hidden from us. Why did we need the Border Force Act if there was nothing to hide?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The prison gates of Nauru are set to be flung open and 600 <b>asylum</b> seekers are to be processed. But they have to ask for permission to go out, are not allowed to take any money and can only take two bottles of water. And the Nauruans are deeply hostile to them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is too little, too late. We want nothing less than the closure of all offshore and onshore detention camps, and we want to welcome <b>asylum</b> seekers to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Stephanie Rodger is a member of Hunter <b>Asylum</b> Seeker Advocacy, which is inviting people to gather at the Resilience Sculpture in Newcastle Foreshore Park on Sunday, October 11, at 2pm</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Philippines preferred over Cambodia</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Nicole Hasham   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>539 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Manus Island - <b>Refugee</b> resettlement</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A potential deal to resettle Manus Island refugees in the Philippines would be better than Australia's trouble-plagued deal with Cambodia and may offer solace to detainees who are "losing their minds", <b>refugee</b> advocates say.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The arrangement, if it proceeds, also offers a political release valve to the Turnbull government, which needs to find a solution to the festering problem of offshore detention without appearing to waver on its tough border protection stance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However Labor has questioned if a bilateral deal with the Philippines is "good economics" after the government "botched" the Cambodia deal by spending $55 million to resettle four refugees from Nauru so far.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton confirmed on Friday that refugees who travelled to Australia by <b>boat</b> could be permanently resettled in the Philippines under a deal being negotiated by the government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The arrangement would reportedly be worth about $150 million over five years and involve refugees from Manus Island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is unclear if the Philippines would be required to accept a minimum number of refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are presently 934 adult male <b>asylum</b> seekers and refugees at Manus Island. The Papua New Guinea government has not resettled a single <b>refugee</b> despite pledging to do so.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the past two years, two <b>asylum</b> seekers have died on the island, gay detainees are allegedly mistreated and refugees released from detention are reportedly not allowed to work or move freely.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Pamela Curr of the <b>Asylum</b> Seeker Resource Centre said to refugees, the Philippines would be "more attractive than going to Cambodia".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Cambodia is a rather repressive regime and as we can see from the four people who went there, they are not exactly moving freely in the community [and] we know they are not terribly happy," she said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Curr said while the Philippines was not a perfect solution, refugees on Manus Island "face all sorts of problems, as well as losing their minds".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But she questioned why Australia still refused to resettle the refugees, and why the government was "going around the impoverished ... states of the world looking for a place to dump people".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sydney University international law professor Ben Saul said the Philippines was a developing country but "it's not dirt poor, has a very strong constitutional bill of rights and a strong culture of human rights protections under domestic law".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It does face internal conflict in the south and there's lots of corruption and governance problems but it's nowhere near as underdeveloped, politically unstable and authoritarian as Cambodia," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The federal government continues to face public pressure to bring a woman allegedly raped at Nauru to Australia for an abortion.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton on Friday indicated the woman was not currently in a condition to travel, but suggested this may change.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I will do what is in the best interests of the individual person based on the medical advice available," Mr Dutton said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The first group of an emergency intake of 12,000 Syrian refugees is expected to arrive in Australia before Christmas. Mr Dutton said 1000 refugees had been referred to Australian officials for processing in the Middle East, while others had been "screened out".</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>$3 million a year bill to plug <b>boat</b> gap</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>EXCLUSIVE Ian McPhedran National defence writer   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>265 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CourierMail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>32</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE Royal Australian Navy has been forced to lease two patrol boats for $3 million a year to fill a gap in its border protection capabilities.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Two Cape-class vessels operated by Border Force will be leased over the next two years.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The navy’s Armidale-class patrol <b>boat</b> fleet has been under pressure since it entered service in 2006 and several of the 13 vessels have been laid up due to structural, corrosion and mechanical problems. The boats have buckled under the strain of a heavy workload, with major cracking around the engine.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the peak of <b>asylum</b> seeker arrivals during 2012-13 the boats were intercepting more than a dozen vessels a week. A “hull remediation” program has begun in a bid to keep the boats in service until 2022.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Both types of patrol craft were built by WA shipbuilder Austal at Henderson near Perth between 2004 and 2007 to civilian rather than military specifications and are fabricated from aluminium rather than steel.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Cape Byron began working for the navy in Julyand Cape Nelson on October 1. Both will be returned to Border Force by the end of 2016.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is understood the navy has been unhappy with the availability levels achieved by the Armidale-class fleet under Operation Sovereign Borders.The navy would not reveal how many boats were fit to go to sea, but a Defence annual report said the fleet failed to meet its performance targets due to “Armidale-class patrol <b>boat</b> maintenance challenges”.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>We will keep boats at bay</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Rob Harris   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>376 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2015 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">AUSTRALIA’S tough border protection regime has stopped more than 650 “potentially ­illegal immigrants” arriving in less than two years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Federal Immigration Minister Peter Dutton revealed the figure yesterday as he warned that people smugglers were using Australia’s change of leadership as an opportunity to drum up business.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton said the Turnbull government remained committed to the existing policy and would “stare down” the threat posed by people smugglers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I want to reiterate today — in the strongest possible terms — that the resolve of the Prime Minister and myself, the whole … government is to make sure that we don’t allow deaths at sea to recommence,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Operation Sovereign Borders commander Major-General Andrew Bottrell said it was now more than 430 days since the last successful people-smuggling venture made it to Australia and nearly two years since the last known death at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said the most recent ­attempt was in August but the passengers and crew on that vessel were “safely returned” to their country of departure.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton, who visited Christmas Island Detention Centre with Maj-Gen Bottrell this week, said there had been a “transformation” in the make-up of the detainee population.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said of the 285 people being held on Christmas Island, 125 were from visa cancellations, 57 visa overstayers and 96 “illegal maritime arrivals”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The largest nationality grouping was Iranians, who made up 21 per cent of the total population on Christmas ­Island, with New Zealanders making up 14 per cent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He added the government was in discussions with a number of regional countries about resettling those seeking <b>asylum</b> on Manus Island, but would not speculate on a possible deal with the Philippines.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He reiterated that none of the <b>asylum</b> seekers who came to Australia by <b>boat</b>, and who were still in regional processing centres, would be resettled in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Opposition Immigration spokesman Richard Marles said Labor was open to any “genuine, sustainable proposal” that resettled refugees from Australian-funded ­regional processing centres, but said the public wanted the full details on the plan.“We want to ensure any proposal offers permanent, safe outcomes for refugees, with access to health, education and settlement services,” Mr Marles said.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Poetry in motion: Haunting trauma finds release in words</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Linda Morris   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>694 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Two years after poet Yarrie Bangura arrived in Australia from a <b>refugee</b> camp in Guinea she began to experience nightmares - scenes from the civil war she had escaped in Sierra Leone.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I was seeing ghosts," she remembers. "Someone would be calling my name. At night I couldn't sleep, daytime I couldn't focus. I thought I was going mad. I thought I can't tell anybody what I was seeing. If I told my friends at school maybe they would not be my friends any more. If I tell my parents they would say, 'move on, you are in Australia'. I just kept it inside me, these frightened things."</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It helped to write and paint. Bangura would then rip up the results and recite in her head: "You are not me. I'm bigger and I'm stronger."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Only when a friend read her discarded words did Bangura realise she was putting down poetry, and this act of expression was helping her to heal. The nightmares stopped in 2011.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bangura is one of three <b>refugee</b> poets who will open the National Poetry Slam Finals, part of the Word Travels' Story Festival, at the Sydney Opera House this weekend. Each fled their home country, blind to what the future held, and found <b>asylum</b> in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"What if you had to walk from Dubbo to Wollongong with your children, then jump on a <b>boat</b> to save your family?" the festival's creative director, Miles Merrill, asks. "Or where would you go if the Prime Minister decided to bomb your suburb?"</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One of the performers in Writing through Fences is Somali writer Hani Abdile, who spent 13 months in detention on Christmas Island before her release in January on a bridging visa.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Like Bangura, poetry is Abdile's weapon against stress. With little English, the 19-year-old founded a weekly newsletter in detention and runs Arrivalists, a weekly poetry night in Newtown.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Born in ward 209 in the political prisoner's ward of Evin Prison in Tehran, Kaveh Arya, otherwise known as the Unlikely Poet, writes as a means of escape, self-expression and social critique.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"To be honest with you, sometimes poetry can be cowardice," he says. "Behind beautiful literature we can hide the need to speak, the need to cry. For me it's a way to invite people to care, to invite people to feel, and in that way it's constructive."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Arya, who came to Australia when he was 13, began writing poetry as a boy in imitation of the great Persian poet Sohrab Sepehri, whose book his parents carried with them during their flight from Iran to Turkey.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His university lecturer came across one of his poems in the back of one of Arya's textbooks and urged him to attend poetry nights in Glebe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the same way as the single image of a dead child washed up on a beach in Turkey can shift global opinion, Arya says, poetry works by creating a mental picture that bridges the divide between author and listener.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He's used poetry to open dialogue with marginalised high school youth in Sydney, and recently travelled to Syria as part of a humanitarian mission.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Poetry underlines for him the idea that humanity is a work in progress, that the journey of a <b>refugee</b> is not over once they reach sanctuary but continues well after. Writing verse can be confronting.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"People maybe go through a separation, or parental issues or domestic violence or a war, or becoming a <b>refugee</b>, [but] I have experienced all of those things. You sort of create an attic deep beneath your guts.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"You open the door and it's dark and scary and you know you don't want to go there.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It's one of those things you are always procrastinating, 'I'll do it later', but there has to come a time when you need to take a step down."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See live performance of the three poets 3pm on Saturday in the Cutaway, Barangaroo Park, and from 7pm Sunday at Opera House.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Twin roles a showcase for Hardy’s brilliance</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAVID STRATTON   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1169 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Review</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>15</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Legend (tbc) * * * * National release from Thursday</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Simshar (M) * * * * Limited release</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Learning to Drive (M) * * * Limited release</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Not far from Carnaby Street, where Mary Quant, Twiggy and Jean Shrimpton helped create Swinging London — assisted by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and all the rest — East Enders Reggie and Ronnie Kray controlled some of the most popular London nightclubs, venues where the celebrities often gathered to party. The twin brothers were feared for their violence and ruthlessness, and it took a very long time before they were brought to justice.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Their story has been told before on screen, in the 1990 Peter Medak film The Krays, in which Martin Kemp played Reggie and his brother Gary Kemp played Ronnie. In that version of the story, the dominant female in the lives of the criminal siblings was their mother, played by Billie Whitelaw.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the new version, Legend, written and directed by American Brian Helgeland, the focus has shifted to Frances, the East End teenager who becomes besotted with the superficially charming Reggie and marries him, only to live to regret it. Frances is played by Australian actress Emily Browning and she is excellent in the role; Helgeland even has her narrate the film (“It took a lot of love for me to hate him”), so that superficially the story is told from her point of view, giving Legend something in common with Sunset Boulevard.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As much as it is a retelling of the rise and fall of the Krays, Legend is a showcase for the considerable talents of Tom Hardy, who is one of the film’s executive producers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hardy plays the smooth, nattily dressed, persuasive Reggie and the moody, unbalanced, openly gay Ronnie who had, early in his career, been sent to a mental institution after he was convicted of grievous bodily harm, but who was released on the testimony of a doctor who had been bribed to give a favourable report.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Quite apart from the skilful technical achievement involved, it is utterly fascinating to watch Hardy differentiate between the two brothers in a narrative where Reggie often seems on the verge of going straight — becoming involved in legitimate nightspots — until dragged over into the dark side by the actions of his deranged twin. The criminal activities of the Krays are a constant thorn in the side of police officer Leonard “Nipper” Read (Christopher Eccleston), but the brothers also fall foul of a rival gang based south of the river.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Helgeland, who previously has shown a greater aptitude as a writer (LA Confidential) than as a director (Payback, A Knight’s Tale), brings an outsider’s vision to this violent story and the result is his best film to date. Assisted by his cinematographer, Dick Pope, and production designer, Tom Conroy, he re-creates London in the 1960s with considerable skill.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The film also explores one of the most intriguing aspects of the Krays’ story, the involvement of politicians.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Two gay parliamentarians, Conservative peer Lord Boothby and Labour MP Tom Driberg, became associated with the Krays to the point that prime minister Harold Wilson demanded action be taken against them. This was, after all, not long after the Profumo scandal rocked the British establishment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The film also explores the links between the Krays and the American mafia. There’s a bleakly amusing sequence in which a criminal called Bruno (Chazz Palminteri) arrives as an emissary from Meyer Lansky, the notorious Las Vegas crime figure, seeking an alliance. While he is convinced by Reggie’s smooth urbanity, Bruno is repelled by Ronnie’s instability and unpredictable temper.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is a violent movie but it’s an utterly compelling one with an extraordinary central double performance. The Krays were an appalling pair, and their terrible story has been ­vividly and intelligently brought to the screen.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Films from Malta are as rare as hen’s teeth, so Rebecca Cremona’s Simshar — which is getting limited screenings around the country — comes as a welcome surprise.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Based on a true story, the film deals with the ill-fated voyage of the small fishing <b>boat</b> that gives the films its title as well as the larger, more contentious, question of the flood of North African refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The film was made in 2013, when this situation was yet to reach the dire proportions that it has today, but even so the film raises important questions about attitudes towards these boatpeople.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Early scenes vividly establish life in Malta’s seaport capital, Valletta, and the bureaucracy that makes life difficult for some of the country’s independent fishermen who are so bound by rules and regulations that their profit margins are dwindling alarmingly.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Although he doesn’t have the correct papers in place, old Karmenu (Jimi Busuttil) sets sail on a fishing trip with his son Simon (Lotfi Abdelli) and grandson Theo (Adrian Farrugia), plus a North African <b>refugee</b>, Moussa (Sekouba Doucoure), to help with the heavy lifting. On shore, Simon’s wife (Clare Agius) waits with her younger son, gradually realising that something has gone terribly wrong.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Meanwhile a Turkish ship laden with refugees has been stopped offshore and a medical team has boarded to assess the health of the ­refugees. John (Chrysander Agius) is left on board when a pregnant woman refuses the offer of a chopper flight to a hospital because she’s afraid to leave her brother.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The scenes at sea are confidently staged, and for a first feature by a new director, ­Simshar is a notable success. Its multi-layered and poignant stories unfold with a tender humanity, while questioning some of the assumptions of the authorities.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There’s a key scene in which a (presumably) Maltese fishing ship sees desperate survivors of a disaster clinging to a makeshift raft on the sea but refuses to help because “we’re not coastguards, we’re fishermen”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I don’t know much about acting traditions on Malta, but all the players here are utterly ­convincing and the cinematography offers more than just a travelogue of a beautiful part of the world.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Learning to Drive, an independent American film made by the Catalan director Isabel Coixet, is a showcase for two fine actors: Ben Kingsley and Patricia Clarkson. She plays Wendy, a New York literary critic whose life is turned upside down when her husband leaves her for another woman.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One of her many problems is that she never learned how to drive. Kingsley, who is half-Indian, plays Darwan, a Sikh taxi driver who gives driving lessons on the side.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The film explores the relationship between these two very different characters in ways that are pretty predictable; it’s a feel-good movie through and through, and a successful one given that it was runner-up in the audience award for best film at Toronto last year.As a drama about an unusual relationship the film is perfectly decent and completely unremarkable, yet the characters played by Clarkson and Kingsley linger in the memory.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Bishop’s thriller in Manila</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Michael Sainsbury  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>385 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>9 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2015 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE Australian government is in final negotiations to send refugees from Manus Island to the Philippines for resettlement as part of a landmark agreement worth about $150 million.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Daily Telegraph understands Foreign Minister Julie Bishop was given a verbal assurance by her Filipino counterpart Albert del Rosario that the <b>refugee</b> deal would go ahead after a meeting on the sidelines of the <span class="companylink">UN General Assembly</span> in New York last week.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The deal is understood to be part of a broader Strategic Partnership Agreement under discussion with the Philippines – southeast Asia’s fifth- largest economy – that would also cover trade issues and a deeper security alliance with Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is the fruits of months of diplomatic door-knocking in the region by Australian officials desperate to find a solution to the problematic detention centres on Manus Island and Nauru. Both camps have gained notoriety for poor living conditions, with a murder on Manus and accusations of abuse on Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Bishop confirmed she had discussed the issue with Mr del Rosario in New York but declined to reveal details of any agreement. “The governments of Australia and the Philippines have long co-operated on irregular migration, people smuggling and human trafficking,” she said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“These issues are important to both countries, and to the region.” According to a senior official in the international <b>refugee</b> aid sector, negotiations with the Philippines began in August and three meetings were held in Manila in the lead-up to the foreign ministers’ meeting last week.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the initial discussions, Australia is understood to have offered the Philippines $30 million a year over five years to resettle the Manus Island refugees, a total of $150 million, but the final figure remains unclear.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ambassador for People Smuggling Issues Andrew Goledzinowski, a former ambassador to the <span class="companylink">UN</span> and an ­adviser to foreign ministers Gareth Evans and Alexander Downer, led the talks on the Australian side.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is believed the deal is backed by Mr del Rosario and at least two Cabinet colleagues and just needs approval by President ­Benigno Aquino.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Aquino is expected to face significant opposition from within his bureaucracy and aid agencies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Concerns have been raised the refugees will again try to reach Australia by <b>boat</b> after being resettled.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By Ross Peake   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>685 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>9 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A005</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By Ross Peake</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abuse horrors set to be recounted at Canberra rally by whistleblower</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Former youth worker Tobias Gunn will address the rally in Canberra on Sunday. Photo: KARLEEN MINNEY</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A whistleblower will give a harrowing account of seeing a toddler bashed at the Nauru detention camp, when he speaks to a rally on Sunday. Tobias Gunn is opening up on his work with <span class="companylink">Save the Children</span> Australia, when he was trying to help <b>asylum</b> seekers at the notorious camp. Despite reporting the abuse to authorities, the alleged perpetrator was not charged, he said. Mr Gunn is now extremely concerned the opening up of the camp means women and children who have been abused will come face to face in the small community with the alleged perpetrators. Along with other speakers at Sunday's rally in Canberra, Mr Gunn will urge Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to abandon mandatory detention of <b>asylum</b> seekers who arrive by <b>boat</b>. He said he witnessed inappropriate sexualised behaviour by children on Nauru. Guards made sexual advances to under-aged girls and subjected them to verbal sexualised abuse, he said. Mr Gunn and a co-worker witnessed a four-year-old girl running, apparently terrified, from a guard. "He caught up with her and, with his left hand, hit her in the back of the head with enough force to lift her off her feet and she smacked into the</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ground," Mr Gunn said. "She was so terrified she immediately crawled into the fetal position and wouldn't stop screaming. "The guard was extremely abuseful towards me and my co-worker and told us to f--- off." Mr Gunn said Wilson Security had</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">to produce information to the Senate inquiry into Nauru, about cases of alleged abuse. "When this case came back, they stated they had insufficient information to find the perpetrator," he said. "But there were two witnesses, we</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">had his name and there was a security response to the incident which involved the second in command. "My statement was cross- examined with the abuser's course of events, so Wilson security had interviewed him, they also had his name on the roster sheet for the</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">security station outside the recreation tent. It is horrific how the system did not deal with these people. With the camp now open, it's only a matter of time before families come into contact with their abusers and the abusers have access to their victims again, which is extremely</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">concerning when there's been cases of sexual abuse." Wilson Security told the Senate inquiry it was concerned about the incident and said excessive force by its staff was not tolerated. The rally will hear an audio recording from another former</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">worker with Save The Children, Jane, who wishes to be identified by only her first name. "I think what Australia doesn't know at this stage is the systematic day-to-day inhumanities and abuses that are happening to most if not all of the <b>asylum</b> seekers," she said. This included having to walk up to 100 metres to a water tap and being given lower-quality food than that served to staff. "Sometimes the catering staff can't identify what meat is being served to <b>asylum</b> seekers," she said. She said a pre-teen girl who said she had been sexually abused was put with her family in a holding area in close proximity to the alleged perpetrator, while awaiting transport off the island. "One manager said to myself and another staff member he had no understanding of child protection," Jane said. Meanwhile, thousands of people have signed an online petition demanding a rape victim on Nauru be allowed to come to Australia for an abortion, after her plight was revealed by <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span>. In March, an independent review into sexual abuse inside the detention centre on Nauru found evidence of rape, sexual assault of minors and guards trading marijuana for sexual favours from female detainees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Stand Up For Refugees Rally 1pm, Garema Place, Sunday, October 11</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gwhis : Whistle Blowers | gcat : Political/General News | gcrim : Crime/Courts | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>nauru : Nauru | austr : Australia | auscap : Australian Capital Territory | canbrr : Canberra | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | pacisz : Pacific Islands</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Federal Capital Press of Australia Pty Ltd</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document CANBTZ0020151008eba900025</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020151007eba800038" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TheNation</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>High Court ‘should reject’ government power to detain people offshore</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ROSIE LEWIS   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>418 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>8 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The detention of <b>asylum</b>-seekers in Nauru and Papua New Guinea is “funded, authorised, procured and effectively controlled” by the Australian government but its powers to send people to camps in foreign countries should be rejected, the High Court has heard.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A test case being run by the Human Rights Law Centre on behalf of a Bangladeshi <b>asylum</b>-seeker facing imminent return to Nauru is examining the lawfulness of Australia’s offshore detention policy. The woman was sent to Nauru after trying to arrive by a <b>boat</b> that was intercepted. She was brought to Australia last year for medical treatment, according to the HRLC.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The government wants to send her and her baby, who was born in Australia, back to Nauru. It is the lead case linked to a series of challenges on behalf of more than 200 <b>asylum</b>-seekers. Ron Merkel QC, for the plaintiff, told the full bench the “critical question” was whether the commonwealth was responsible for detention on the islands. He said the centres were “funded, authorised, procured and effectively controlled” by the government but lacked Australia’s constitutional protections.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The only service providers at the Nauruan facility were contracted by the government, he said, and day-to-day operations were “entirely within the commonwealth’s hierarchy”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the court yesterday, commonwealth Solicitor-General Justin Gleeson SC updated his defence to include Nauru’s three-day-old decision to turn the offshore detention facility into a 24-7 “open-centre”. Nauru promised on Monday to process all ­<b>asylum</b>-seeker claims within a week, declaring detention “had ended”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Gleeson said only the plaintiff’s challenge against the commonwealth’s conduct regarding her previous detention in Nauru should be considered by the court because “in the future no person will be detained”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Merkel acknowledged there was now “blanket approval” for <b>asylum</b>-seekers to come and go as they pleased, but Nauru could reverse the policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The HRLC’s director of legal advocacy, Daniel Webb, said the federal government clearly had powers to detain people in and remove them from Australia but questioned whether that should extend to detention offshore.“When we filed this case, the question was whether there was any Australian law that authorised our government to fund and control offshore detention,” he said. “The government responded by retrospectively introducing a law that sought to give them that authority. The question now is whether that is a constitutionally valid law.”</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gpol : Domestic Politics | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>nauru : Nauru | austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | pacisz : Pacific Islands</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020151007eba800038</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-GCBULL0020151006eba60002w" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Nauru to grant <b>asylum</b> seekers freedom</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>123 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Gold Coast Bulletin</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>GCBULL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>GoldCoast</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>11</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">CANBERRA MORE than 600 illegal <b>boat</b> people sent to Nauru will have their <b>refugee</b> applications processed and will be freed from detention to join the island community this week.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Nauruan Government yesterday made the shock ­announcement which will see the <b>asylum</b> seekers eat and sleep at the regional processing centre but allow them to come and go when they want without curfew.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It will essentially make the detention centre an “open ­centre”. Nauru Justice Minister David Adeang said detention had ended and refugees would be allowed to integrate with the community.Lifeguards will be hired to allow swimming in the harbour, while <span class="companylink">Australian Federal Police</span> officers will assist with the integration of the <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>nauru : Nauru | auscap : Australian Capital Territory | austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | pacisz : Pacific Islands</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document GCBULL0020151006eba60002w</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020151005eba60003h" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TheNation</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Nauru’s detention days ‘are finished’</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ROSIE LEWIS   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>476 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Nauruan government has promised to process the claims of all <b>asylum</b>-seekers within a week, declaring detention on the small island nation “had ended”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As the controversial facility ­officially became an “open centre”, allowing detainees to come and go whenever they like, the Nauruan government committed to processing about 600 remaining <b>asylum</b>-seeker claims over the course of the week.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Australian understands those people who are found to be genuine refugees will be given three options: to live in Nauru, to be transferred and resettled in Cambodia or to return to their home country. They will not be resettled in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While the Turnbull government and Labor backed the news, <b>refugee</b> advocates said the change was an 11th-hour move that coincided with a High Court bid to challenge the legality of the immigration policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The High Court is scheduled to examine the lawfulness of the government’s role in offshore ­detention on Nauru tomorrow and Thursday, according to the Human Rights Law Centre.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Nauruan Department of Justice and Border Control said the detention of <b>asylum</b>-seekers “had ended” and all people were now free to move around the ­island “at their will” after it turned the camp into a 24/7 “open centre” yesterday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The detention centre on Nauru, which first opened under the Howard government, was ­re-established by Julia Gillard in 2012 for offshore processing of people who tried to reach Australia by <b>boat</b>, in response to record numbers of arrivals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Under the Coalition government, <b>boat</b> arrivals have stopped.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nauruan Justice Minister David Adeang described the processing of all remaining <b>asylum</b>-seekers’ claims as a “landmark day” for the small Pacific Island that indicated an “even more compassionate program”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The HRLC’s director of legal advocacy, Daniel Webb, said the announcement would ultimately not help refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“A transition to an open centre would be an important and hard-won improvement, but letting people go for a walk does not ­resolve the fundamental problems caused by indefinitely warehousing them on a tiny remote island,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The men, women and children on Nauru need a real solution — settlement in a safe place where they can rebuild their lives.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Instead they’re being left languishing in an environment that is clearly unsafe for women and children.” Mr Adeang said Australia, which has funded the detention centre, would support Nauru with “safety, security and law enforcement”, including police ­assistance and ongoing healthcare.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said the government would continue to deliver settlement services to refugees in Nauru through the funding of contracted service providers.The opposition immigration spokesman, Richard Marles, said <b>asylum</b>-seekers in the detention centre must have their protection claims assessed “as soon as hum­anly practicable” and urged the government to step up its efforts to find resettlement solutions.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Refugees granted freedom on Nauru</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Jessica Marszalek   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>350 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CourierMail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE Federal Government is facing calls to quickly find permanent homes for hundreds of <b>asylum</b> seekers on Nauru after the island nation made a surprise decision to fling open the doors of its detention centre.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Government of Nauru yesterday announced the centre would immediately become an open facility and committed to process all remaining <b>refugee</b> claims on the island – about 600 – within a week.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nauru Justice Minister David Adeang said the nation had been working towards an open centre for a long time and had been waiting on confirmation of Australia’s assistance – including extra police to monitor safety – before it could allow people to come and go as they pleased.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The start of detention-free processing is a landmark day for Nauru and represents an even more compassionate program, which was always the intention of our Government,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The move also comes ahead of a High Court case tomorrow challenging the lawfulness of the Australian Government’s role with the detention centre.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Thirty refugees will join the country’s community liaison officers, whose numbers are being boosted from 135 to 320, to process visas and to help with integration into the community, Mr Adeang said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“More lifeguards will also be appointed, as swimming and other water sports are popular with <b>refugee</b> families, particularly at the local <b>boat</b> harbour,” his statement said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Nauruan Government refused to provide more information on logistics. Refugees will still be fed, sleep and receive medical care at the centre. Federal Immigration Minister Peter Dutton welcomed the move and said Australia had made it possible by funding service providers, sharing training with Nauru’s law enforcement and deploying <span class="companylink">Australian Federal Police</span> there as required.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor immigration spokesman Richard Marles described it as a positive step but called on the Turnbull Government to step up efforts to find permanent resettlement for those on the island.<b>Refugee</b> advocates have raised concerns over safety, including that women will be at greater risk of sexual assault on the island and argue the refugees should be moved urgently to Australia.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>nauru : Nauru | austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | pacisz : Pacific Islands</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document COUMAI0020151005eba60001r</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-CANBTZ0020151005eba600019" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Christchurch's sensory delight</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>897 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A008</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Christchurch's sensory delight</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nature's joys await visitors landing in Christchurch ... and pooches at Dogs Day Out at Floriade.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">P rogressive New Zealand always has so much to teach us. Its current quest (almost completed) for an enviable new national flag that dispenses with the moribund Union Jack is a case in point. So it comes as no surprise to discover, as we look for ideas for better ways of presenting the <span class="companylink">Canberra Airport</span> arrivals area, to find Christchurch International Airport (CIA) has arrivals spaces we would do well to imitate. To recap: many sensitive Canberrans, led and goaded into grumbling by the No Airport Arms Ads (NAAA) activists, are fed up with the way the <span class="companylink">Canberra Airport</span> arrivals area is dominated by big ads for arms manufacturers. These ads (lots of sinister submarines, zooming fighter jets and ideal ships for rounding up <b>asylum</b> seeking <b>boat</b> people) are almost the only decoration this forbidding space has. They seem, to some of us, an awful and inappropriate way to greet first- time visitors to our unique and metrosexy city and to welcome home returning Canberrans. And so, being generally in agreement with the NAAA zealots, this column has shouted out (in a soft voice) for well-travelled Canberrans to help <span class="companylink">Canberra Airport</span> with some ideas. Readers have been quick to tell us of airports that show some flair in welcoming arrivals. Glenda Cloughley advises us that "crossing the ditch and arriving in Christchurch International Airport is a very different experience to returning home to those awful ads at <span class="companylink">Canberra Airport</span>. Very good for the ears of bird lovers!" She points us to an online description, with video http:/ /www.adgraphix.co.nz/blog/[http://www.adgraphix.co.nz/blog/] christchurch-international- airport/ of what awaits those arriving in Christchurch. Here is CIA's online blurb about the sweet ambush that awaits arrivals: "As soon as international passengers depart the aircraft at Christchurch International Airport, they can expect to experience a multi-sensory journey, which is designed to reflect New Zealand's South Island, for which the airport is the</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">main point of entry for international visitors. "The unique arrivals experience starts in the airbridge corridors, where specially commissioned floor-to-ceiling photographs [pictured] highlight four separate regions: the West Coast, Abel Tasman National Park, the Mackenzie Country, and the Antarctic, while a soundtrack of the environment [including bird calls] also features. "For us, this is a way to let people know they have arrived at a very special place," explains Jade Reeves, <span class="companylink">Christchurch International Airport Limited</span>'s (CIAL) marketing manager, who was the instigator and driver of the project. "It also makes the arrivals experience more peaceful. "While passengers queue in the customs area, they can watch a video of the South Island's natural environment on Australasia's largest video wall. Even the baggage reclaim hall is designed</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">to reflect the destination through seasonal imagery. "The sensory arrivals experience has had a positive knock-on effect for the region's tourism industry, which is recovering following the February [2011] earthquake.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Travellers are so inspired that they come to our travel and tourism desks, where travel can be booked, and request to have a trip to exactly the place they have just seen on the airbridge, or along the walkways, or in the customs area," Reeves explained.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">How about it, supremos of <span class="companylink">Canberra Airport</span>? Can you see virtue in ideas like these? Shouldn't our arrivals be telling people, for it is the gospel truth, that they have arrived at a very special place? CIAL's PR spinsmiths make much of trying to make the "airport experience" a "peaceful and relaxing" one, and of course it is true that for some travellers flying and everything connected with it is hellish. Your columnist, for many years afflicted with a phobic fear of flying (I am long since cured, praise the Lord), addresses this subject with every sympathy for the ashen-faced afflicted. Anything at all that makes an airport even fractionally more relaxing is to be welcomed. Big, in-your-face advertisements for killing machines have nothing comforting about them. Meanwhile, concerned readers are urging that our airport's arrivals space be decorated not with weaponry but with panoramas of this most panoramic city that travellers are arriving at. This is bound to mean, however much aesthetes will shudder, that pictures of Floriade will get an arrivals area guernsey. And if Floriade is ever bearable (and we're not saying that it is) it will be on Tuesday (today). Tuesday is the second annual Dogs Day Out at Floriade, at which dogs are able to enjoy ("from a distance", Floriade's fun- smothering killjoys insist) the displays of flowers. We think it would be far more fun on the Dogs Day Out At Floriade to let the dogs run amok (to bring a little spontaneity to that show's inhibited, dragooned displays). It is hard to think of two things with less in common than anal-retentive, tightly-leashed Floriade and the average, exuberant, free-range dog (like the sunglasses-wearing one in our picture). But the saving grace of Dogs Day Out at Floriade is that it comes with encouragement of everyone there to donate to the <span class="companylink">RSPCA</span>. That worthy organisation's chief executive, Tammy Ven Denge, will be at Floriade from 10.30am.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By Nicole Hasham   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>666 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A004</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nauru pledges to fast-track 600 <b>refugee</b> claims By Nicole Hasham</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Nauruan government intends to process the <b>refugee</b> claims of 600 <b>asylum</b> seekers within a week, saying it has flung open the doors of the controversial camp and the era of detention "has ended". As <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> reported on Sunday, the Australian-funded detention centre will become an "open centre" 24 hours a day from Monday. In a surprise move, Justice Minister David Adeang said on Monday the government intended to process about 600 remaining <b>refugee</b> claims "within the next week". <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> has sought detail on</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">how this would be achieved, and how the Nauru government will ensure claims are properly assessed. There is speculation the claims have already been processed, but <b>asylum</b> seekers have not yet been informed of the outcome. Immigration Minister Peter Dutton welcomed the open centre announcement and said the remaining <b>refugee</b> claims have been "under consideration for some time". A small proportion of <b>asylum</b> seekers at Nauru have been settled on the island, but they have been granted only temporary visas and their future is uncertain. A deal to resettle Nauru refugees in</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Cambodia has also been beset by problems and only a handful have taken up the offer. Nauru announced the transition to an "open centre" last November and since then, detainees have been able to move freely outside the centre between 6am and 6pm. A press release issued by the Nauru government on Monday said "detention had ended", but a government spokesman later clarified the centre would remain open. All restrictions have now been lifted but detainees will still eat, sleep and receive medical services at the centre. It is understood they could opt to live outside the facility.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The start of detention-free processing is a landmark day for Nauru and represents an even more compassionate program, which was always the intention of our government," Mr Adeang said. The government pledged to appoint more lifeguards on the island "as swimming and other water sports are popular with <b>refugee</b> families, particularly at the local <b>boat</b> harbour".To ensure <b>asylum</b> seekers are integrated into the community safely and cohesively, the government said it has increased the number of community liaison officers from 135 to 320, which includes 30 refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Adeang said the Australian government would support Nauru with "safety, security and law enforcement", including providing more help from Australian police. As <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> has reported, there have been numerous incidents of refugees living on the island being attacked, and <b>refugee</b> advocates say many are too scared to leave the detention centre, despite being allowed to. The centre has been the subject of a litany of alarming allegations, including the sexual assault and mistreatment of <b>asylum</b> seekers. In August there were 653 <b>asylum</b> seekers waiting on the outcome of</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">their <b>refugee</b> claims, comprising 446 men, 114 women and 93 children. The Human Rights Law Centre pointed to a High Court of Australia case due to be heard this week challenging the lawfulness of the Australian government's role in the Nauru detention centre, claiming this was the catalyst for the "eleventh- hour" implementation of an open centre policy. "[The Nauru developments] in no way address the fundamental injustice of leaving men, women and children languishing indefinitely on a tiny island ... there [are] serious safety issues and no real future for them beyond it," the centre's director</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">of legal advocacy Daniel Webb said. <span class="companylink">Save the Children</span> had campaigned for greater freedom of movement for <b>asylum</b> seekers, saying detention is detrimental, especially for children. Acting chief executive Mat Tinkler on Monday welcomed the open centre policy. "Now these children and families who have sought <b>asylum</b> but previously been locked up, will instead be able to move about the island freely and when they choose," he said. The organisation also supported an increase in <b>refugee</b> determinations, saying new permanent accommodation was being constructed for families and single refugees.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gpol : Domestic Politics | cprdop : Facility Openings | c24 : Capacity/Facilities | ccat : Corporate/Industrial News | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>nauru : Nauru | austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | pacisz : Pacific Islands</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Federal Capital Press of Australia Pty Ltd</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document CANBTZ0020151005eba60001k</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AFNR000020151005eba60000m" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Nauru allowing refugees out of camps</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Phillip Coorey   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>557 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian Financial Review</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AFNR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2015. Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton is seeking agreements with other regional nations to take <b>asylum</b> seekers stranded on Nauru and Manus Island as the government strives to rid itself of a growing humanitarian and political problem.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Monday, Canberra welcomed but played down the significance of an announcement by the Nauruan government that there would be no curfew on detention centre inmates, and that the final 600 <b>asylum</b> seekers would have their claims for <b>refugee</b> status processed in a week.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Greens and <b>refugee</b> groups heralded the decision and demanded the government move swiftly to allow those classified as refugees to be allowed to settle in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the government said that would not be happening because it would open up the people-smuggling trade immediately.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The Australian government is committed to the regional processing arrangements," Mr Dutton said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We will continue to support the government of Nauru, through funding of a contracted service provider, to deliver settlement services to refugees in Nauru."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">Australian Financial</span> Review understands Mr Dutton is engaged in several bilateral negotiations with other countries in the region trying to relocate the <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As well as Nauru, there are about 900 languishing in the detention centre on Manus Island, Paula New Guinea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor also opposes bringing the detainees to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"People must have their protection claims assessed as soon as humanly practicable," opposition immigration spokesman Richard Marles said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"While today's announcement is welcome, Labor calls on the government to step up its efforts to find permanent resettlement solutions for the refugees on Nauru."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A government spokeswoman said as it stood those classified as refugees on Nauru had three options: they could live on Nauru; go home; or move to Cambodia, where the government has negotiated a resettlement agreement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That agreement has cost taxpayers about $40 million and just four refugees have opted to move to Cambodia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Pacific camps were reopened and filled while Labor was in government and tens of thousands of <b>asylum</b> seekers were making their way to Australia by <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Reports of foul living conditions, worsening mental health and women being raped are increasing pressure on the Turnbull government to empty the camps on both islands.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The relaxation could ease pressure on private contractor <span class="companylink">Transfield Services</span>, which runs the Nauru detention centre and has come under fire over increasing instances of rape and violence.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Nauruan government said Australia would be providing more police assistance but Mr Dutton made no mention of this in his statement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A significant proportion of the detainees are Iranian, many of whom are deemed economic refugees. But they cannot be repatriated forcefully because Tehran will accept them only if they return home willingly.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The detainees on Nauru had been subject most recently to a 9pm curfew. This has been lifted and they can travel the island as they wish. They are still able to eat and sleep at the detention centre.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The [Nauruan] Department of Justice and Border Control explained that this meant that detention had ended, and all <b>asylum</b> seekers are now free to move around the island at their will," the Nauruan government said in a statement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The start of detention-free processing is a landmark day for Nauru and represents an even more compassionate program, which was always the intention of our government."</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Pathway to freedom</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Katherine Fleming   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1037 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>3 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The West Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TWAU</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>47</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015, West Australian Newspapers Limited   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It’s a long way from Vietnam but a <b>refugee</b> revels in making our garden great</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">T here is something about spring in Kings Park that speaks to Peter Nguyen: the colourful flush of new growth, in this place that gave him a life he once only imagined.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">About 35 years ago Peter, the gently spoken, quick-to-smile curator of the WA Botanic Garden, was far from this sunny place, standing on a dark shore in Vietnam, about to launch the <b>boat</b> he had built to carry his family to a better life.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As his beloved garden marks its 50th anniversary tomorrow, Peter has reflected on his incredible story of survival and his role in cultivating one of Perth’s most treasured attractions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After the Vietnam War, Peter, then a father of three, knew he had to get his family out if they were ever going to know freedom. Feigning plans to become a fisherman, he went into the forest near his village, outside Saigon, to fell trees, hand-milling the wood with the help of a local carpenter. He was qualified as a lawyer but his father was a builder, and he had learnt early how to work with his hands.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Day after day, he sculpted the <b>boat</b>, driven by the desire to see his family safe but with the ever-present fear that his plans would be discovered and met with brutal punishment from the ruling Communist Party.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When it was ready, Peter took his children, all aged under six, wife and about five other family members, to the water’s edge under cover of darkness. But they were not alone. Despite his efforts to keep things quiet, word had spread. There was a crowd of people waiting, asking for a chance to flee. Despite the size of the <b>boat</b> — just 10m by 2.5m — Peter packed on as many as he could.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Once they were clear of the land, he had a chance to do a headcount: there were 68 people aboard a <b>boat</b> that should only hold 34. Luckily, it wasn’t long until they were picked up by the Indonesian authorities and transferred to the Galang <b>refugee</b> camp, in the Riau Archipelago near Singapore.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Peter’s family spent a year there, brushing up on their English and waiting to hear which country might take them in. It was a hard life, but even then Peter remembers feeling a sense of freedom.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Eventually, Australia agreed to take them in and the Nguyens were sent to WA, with the support of the local Catholic community.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They landed at Perth Airport with only the clothes on their backs, strangers in an unfamiliar place, but Peter was hopeful. They were safe here. Here, they could start again.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I still had my two hands and I could make something of it,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On a family visit to Kings Park, Peter was captivated by all the plants he had never seen before, completely unlike the tropical flora of his homeland. When he saw an opportunity to sign up to a Federal scheme building pathways in the park, he jumped at it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In his work group were others trying to make a new start — a Kiwi, two Brits, other Vietnamese and a Pole — but Peter stood out. The supervisors noticed his work ethic and aptitude for a challenge and offered him a job in the botanic garden.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“That was a big opportunity for me — it felt like my dream, like I won a million dollars,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It is my passion and I knew there was a future for me here, so I went to night school to study horticulture. My circumstances changed — we had another child — so I kept up my studies through correspondence instead.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That was 30 years ago. Peter worked his way through the ranks, just by always being the right man for the job, according to senior curator Grady Brand.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Grady and Peter have worked together for more than 20 years, taking the Botanic Garden from “modestly visited to possibly the most visited botanic garden in the world”. Grady, who has worked at Kings Park for 37 years, said the pair shared a passion for the project and a “can do” attitude.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But improving the garden meant changing the way things were done, which is never easy. As well as physical changes — irrigation, public art, signage, new gardens and the elevated walkway — the duo made a concerted effort to improve morale and enthusiasm among their horticultural workers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Grady credits Peter’s “consistency as a person when managing staff” as crucial to their success with the team.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“He is steady as a rock in caring for the staff, as much as caring for the plants,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The WA Botanic Garden is unusual because it is devoted to native flora, rather than displaying plants from around the world.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That native fauna has been the focus of the 17ha garden, inside the 400ha park, since it was opened by Premier David Brand on October 4. 1965.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Since then, it has become a tourist and local favourite, more widely used by the community than most botanic gardens, free to visit and always open. Kings Park gets almost six million visitors a year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sitting in a new terraced pavilion, which will open tomorrow for the anniversary celebrations, Grady said “the plants and the people are inseparable”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The duo have watched their own children and grandchildren celebrate birthdays on the rolling lawns overlooking the city and seen strangers enjoying the flower displays almost every day.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It has been a big part of both our lives, so it sort of feels like a big birthday, more important than my own birthday,” Grady said. “It’s always been special but it has risen in the community’s view exponentially in the last 20 years. Everybody is so proud of it — it’s the jewel in the crown.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For Peter, making the garden world class for visitors to Kings Park was a way of repaying a kindness.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I wished when I settled in Australia that I would be able to do something to put back into the Australian community, particularly to Western Australia,” he said.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>TURNBULL NEEDS TO DELIVER US POLITICAL STABILITY</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Greg Sheridan, Foreign Editor </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1190 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>12</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The country desperately needs a Bob Hawke, or at least a Malcolm Fraser</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is right to observe that the extraordinary instability in the prime ministership has done some damage to Australia’s standing internationally and our reputation for stability. Which is just one of many reasons it is important Malcolm Turnbull now succeed and deliver us sensible, stable, economic ­reform-minded government.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In explaining our new instability we can look at international trends, such as the rise of instability, and political extremes, in numerous European nations such as Greece and even France. The comparison doesn’t work, though, with the Anglophone countries we normally compare ourselves with, such as Britain, Canada, New Zealand, Ireland or even the US. All these nations have had stable political leadership while we have churned through PMs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A more useful interpretative lens might be our own history. Australia is widely known for several things: glorious weather, ease of lifestyle, sporting prowess, the quality of our fighting men and our political stability.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We have been a stable nation but we have often teetered on the brink of serious social instability, and have endured leadership instability quite like that which we have now. The conscription referendums of World War I led to bitter and intensified sectarian divisions between Catholic and Protestant, which were not really resolved until the 1960s.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After a turbulent 20s, it was only the prime ministership of the much underrated Joe Lyons, who defected from the Labor Party to form a conservative government, which led to the pre-war stability and avoided more profound social conflict.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The success of the Russian Bolshevik revolution in 1917 led to the formation of a communist movement in Australia that was the cause of grievous social unrest.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the start of World War II, Labor opposed Australia sending troops to fight the Nazis and many Australian trade unions tried to sabotage the war effort because numerous unions were controlled by communists and in 1939 Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin were allies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australian communists backed the war only after Hitler attacked Russia. Then, after the war, communist economic vandalism again became socially destructive, so much so that the sainted Ben Chifley called out the army to break the miners’ strike in 1949. Imagine the way history would treat that if Chifley had been a conservative prime minister.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After 1949, we got the long Menzies stability, from 1949 to 1966, when he retired. But this stability was hard-won and fragile, and encompassed a savage and sectarian split within the Labor Party. Even John Howard’s long, productive, stable term in office looks much more inevitable in retrospect than it did at the time. Howard lost the popular vote in 1998, was behind in 2001 until the Tampa <b>refugee boat</b> hove into view, and in 2004 hit the lead only in the last week of the election campaign.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The long Hawke-Keating period of stable government from 1983 to 1996 was also chancy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bob Hawke nearly lost in 1984, and did lose the popular vote in 1990 and then was hurled from office by his own party.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But in terms of our present instability perhaps the period that most comes to mind is the interregnum between Robert Menzies’ end in 1966 and Malcolm Fraser’s ascent in 1983.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In that period we had Harold Holt, John Gorton, William McMahon and Gough Whitlam as a series of unsuccessful, unstable leaders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Holt won a landslide victory in 1966 on the basis of support for the war in Vietnam, but after that everything went wrong. By the time of his sudden death at the end of 1967 there were serious leadership rumblings. He was succeeded by the chaotic Gorton, who was effectively removed from office by his own party. His supporters foolishly moved a vote of confidence in his leadership. The vote was tied, which meant Gorton had to resign, not least because he had a minuscule majority in parliament and several MPs would have crossed the floor to vote against him.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">McMahon has no friends in history and is our only PM about whom no biography has been written. In fact he was an important and early economic dry within the Liberal Party. He also arrested the party’s terrible internal chaos, made a reasonable fist of the economy and narrowly lost to Whitlam in 1972.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Whitlam was by a long distance our worst prime minister. Although he was positively worshipped by the commentariat of his day, he was in office a brief three years, scoring the narrowest possible re-election in 1974 before losing in 1975. Whitlam wrecked our economy, gravely endangered national security and tore up conventions — such as the Commonwealth Police not raiding ASIO headquarters — which had never before been in question.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">History has been kind to Whitlam, because it has mostly been written by his partisans. But the judgment of Australians who lived through the Whitlam government was evident in the 1975 and 1977 election results. In 1975, Whitlam suffered the worst electoral landslide defeat in our history. In 1977, when he ran again as opposition leader, he suffered a similar electoral annihilation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The aloof, patrician and deeply conservative Fraser was never popular, but the electorate deliberately chose to elect him three times to repudiate the instability of Whitlam and the period immediately preceding him.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The long Hawke-Keating stability, which had good economic policy and sound national security behaviour, was based in part on Labor learning the lessons of the Whitlam failures and Hawke and Paul Keating determining to govern as the un-Whitlams, if not the anti-Whitlams.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The point is that as a society we were scared of the instability we had flirted with and strove to correct it with the best alternative we had on offer. But what would Australia have been like if we had re-elected Whitlam in 1977, with none of the lessons of the Whitlam government disasters having been learned by the Labor Party? That is what beckons now. Instability and crisis do not always produce a sensible response. Look no further than Greece, Spain or France.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The economic problems of today resemble the politics of the 80s rather than the 90s. Fiscal consolidation is urgent and necessary and cannot be accomplished without pain. It was to our immense national benefit that we achieved this in the 80s under Hawke and Keating, with the support of Howard in opposition. Their micro-economic reforms also freed up the supply side of the economy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Shorten is a good man with strong national security instincts but the Labor Party of today has no policies at all that address our urgent economic problems and is even more in thrall to the destructive impulses of the union movement than in the past. The original sin in policy terms today was Kevin Rudd abandoning fiscal responsibility and Labor re-regulating the labour market. The original sin politically was the caucus assassinating Rudd.We need now a Hawke, or at least a Fraser. Can Turnbull lead us back to the stability we crave?</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Philippa Hawker reports.   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Simshar - Where fiction meets grim reality</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Malta is a place for Hollywood filmmakers seeking locations. For first-time director Rebecca Cremona, it was a place to make a story that had universal resonance. Philippa Hawker reports.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When it comes to movie-making, Malta has blockbuster connections. Hollywood comes calling because it's an ideal location for films set in the ancient world - Gladiator, Troy, Alexander - and there is a huge water tank available for movies that have dramatic ocean scenes. For Maltese writer-director Rebecca Cremona, in her feature debut, her emphasis was very different. The sea was a focus, but her story was a local one, made on a small scale. Yet there's a universality to it and a grim topicality.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It's a fiction, based on two very real events," Cremona says. Simshar is about local fishermen whose lives intersect with <b>asylum</b> seekers travelling by <b>boat</b>. She came across the starting point for the film when she was home for Christmas, after studying overseas for several years. She met a man who had survived an accident at sea. His emotions were still raw, she says, and he had a lot to say. What captured her imagination came at the end of their conversations, when he he told her, in an almost casual way, that while he and his fellow crew had been adrift in the water for several days, they were seen by crews of several boats - but they all passed by.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Cremona says when she heard this story: "Honestly, I didn't believe him at first. Then I spoke to other fishermen, captains of big boats, who were telling me how insurance companies would brief them about how to avoid migrants at sea. I spoke to a guy who rescued people the first time, but lost two days work and was accused of being a smuggler and had his phone confiscated and lost even more work." When she made this element part of her narrative, she wanted to avoid "showing people as totally bad or totally good. They do what they do because they think they are protecting something."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Her movie - which was Malta's first Oscar submission for best foreign film - ties together several narratives. Simshar is the name of a <b>boat</b> owned by Simon (Lotfi Abdelli), a character whose life we get to know in some detail. He is one of many fishermen having trouble adjusting to new realities and regulations and the regular presence of <b>asylum</b> seeker boats on the water.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Cremona also weaves in the true story of a Turkish vessel that has picked up a boatload of <b>asylum</b> seekers, only to find that the authorities in Italy won't let them disembark, nor will the Maltese. The stand-off becomes another element of the drama. One of the <b>asylum</b> seekers, a young woman who speaks English, Makeda (Laura Kpegli), acts as an interpreter; her presence has an impact on Alex (Mark Mifsud), a local doctor who is brought aboard the <b>boat</b> to treat the sick, and forced to stay against his wishes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Although the refugees' plight is central to the story, we learn almost nothing about them, a choice that Cremona says she felt was appropriate. "I didn't want to be presumptuous and say things from the refugees' point of view when I don't really know it. My 'in' was always the Maltese family," Simon and his wife, sons and grandfather. When she started developing the script several years ago, she says, there was less media attention devoted to migration and <b>refugee</b> issues. "I thought that maybe it would not be so topical in the future. Little did I realise how naive that was."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In fact, she says, "because it became so topical, and things changed all the time, I would write something, for dramatic effect, but by the time we filmed it had happened and even worse."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Cremona's first experience on a film set was in Malta, when she won an internship to work on Spielberg's Munich. She studied film and comparative literature at the <span class="companylink">University of Warwick</span> (where she wrote her thesis on Sex And The City), then did more hands-on film studies in the US. Her thesis short film, Magdelene, won a Directors' Guild of America prize.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It wasn't easy to get Simshar funded and made, she says. "It was a combination of government grant, private investment, crowd-funding, sponsorship, sweat, blood and tears." Simshar is screening now.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Kellie Tranter   </td></tr>
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Will the PM have the courage to visit Nauru, writes Kellie Tranter.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">WILL Malcolm Turnbull be the first Australian PM to visit Australia's offshore detention centres?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Demonstrating the irrationality of a then popular phobia, Gough Whitlam was the first Australian Prime Minister to visit China.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Will Malcolm Turnbull have the courage to face a similar contemporaneous issue head-on and be the first Australian Prime Minister to visit an offshore detention centre?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If the late writer Albert Camus was right, one cannot put oneself in the service of those who make history but must remain at the service of those who suffer it. If that is correct there are certain advantages in a prime minister not personally visiting and confronting the sinister crimes and suffering described by the United Nations, <span class="companylink">Amnesty International</span> and other humanitarian organisations in various reports which examine the circumstances faced by <b>asylum</b> seekers in Australia's offshore detention centres.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Once a person bears witness it becomes personally (one hopes) and politically difficult to deny allegations made about the conditions or to remain pragmatic in one's advocacy for Australia's policy position.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull is being pressed to urgently address the significant issues faced by women. This shouldn't end at our borders. If that is not reason enough then surely a fiscally responsible leader would want to see how every year $1.2 billion of taxpayers' money is being spent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Through their skilful, passionate, persistent and courageous political defiance, the health professionals who, despite the Border Force Act, have ignored Australia's gagging law and continue to speak out, can give Mr Turnbull a briefing on the more salient features he should look for on a visit to Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The overwhelming heat, the shower facility devoid of doors, the 120-metre walk some women have to make, past male guards, to use toilet facilities in the middle of the night. A medical centre that is 4-5 kilometres away from the detention camp. Patients being called by their <b>boat</b> numbers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull is on the public record defending Australia's harsh <b>asylum</b> seeker measures on the basis that they stop the people smuggling business.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He asserts that there has never been a more exciting time to be Australian with great opportunities, but it's a sad day when you discover that your country is not unique in its malefaction. The UK is the only country in the EU that has no limit on the length of time that <b>asylum</b>-seekers can be detained in conditions tantamount to high-security prison settings, yet even it still manages to immediately screen children who arrive without visas and release them into the community while their <b>asylum</b> status is determined. We do not.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Upon returning from a visit to Nauru at least Mr Turnbull could sleep soundly with the comfort of knowing that he has the power to change the culture of implementing otherwise impossibly inhumane policies by deceiving the voting public, by imposing a cloak of secrecy and gagging people who wish only to disseminate the truth. More importantly he has the power to change the lives of those people who are personally suffering from our now internationally notorious history of barbarous oppression.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Kellie Tranter is a lawyer and human rights activist</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">DARWIN SHAKEN BY EARTH TREMOR ■Interesting considering we live on an island off the coast of Darwin and felt nothing and we possibly would have been closer to it. Anonymous</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">■ It was so shocking that I was quaking in my boots. I am still having tremors. Adman of NT</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">■Here’s me thinking I was “THE MAN”. Steve of Bynoeland</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">■Typical slackjaw southern media, heard nothing about it down here. Andrew Harper of Adelaide</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">■We didn’t feel it. Were in Humpty Doo. Joanne Greenwood</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BALI BACKFLIP ON AUSSIE VISA FEES ■There are a lot of <b>boat</b> people, aka economic refugees, the Indonesians would happily issue passports to so they can “holiday” in Oz and then claim mainland <b>asylum</b> once through customs. Gary of Cullen Bay ■Sometimes Australian Government policies can be plain embarrassing. The Lone Dongo of Palmerston</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">MOTHER CALLS FOR WITNESSES TO SON’S DEATH ■The average car driver doesn’t even SEE a motorcycle. The bike is smaller than their car so in their mind does not constitute a threat to the dumb driver’s well-being. Toby of Out Bush</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">■While I am sympathetic to the loss of a loved one, unfortunately the majority I see in and out of the lanes are motorcyclists. All on the road need to slow down and watch out. canetoad of Darwin ■ As a driver of a car I am very mindful of the potential damage I could inflict on the rider of a motorcycle. Whenever I encounter a rider on the road I keep my distance whilst at the same time keeping a close eye on them. It’s so sad to hear what has happened to this poor family. Bazza of Nightcliff</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">■I lost my oldest son in a motorbike accident 2007. It hurts and it’s painful but there is always someone else involved. With my son it was a 13yr old boy throwing fireworks at the road early morning. It takes time to heal and you never really do. Bikes are one thing people don’t seem to see or even care about. Myrtie of Karama</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">AVOIDING LUGGAGE FEES ■ New trick to avoiding luggage fees: carry a minion themed bag and have EVERYONE avoid your flight in fear of your sanity. Ben Mursa■ There are luggage restrictions for a reason. Karyn Anna Jane■OMG I was shaking in boots thinking the roof was going to cave in. — Scaredy cat</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1701 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>28 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>9</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Former Indonesian president and friend of Australia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is an optimist on Australia-Indonesia relations, calls upon China as a rising superpower to act responsibly in the region, and wants a deeper Canberra-Jakarta dialogue over <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On a visit to Perth, where the <span class="companylink">University of Western Australia</span> conferred on him the degree of honorary doctor of letters, the former president gave The Australian an exclusive interview that reflected on the often troubled bilateral relationship and the steps needed to secure its future.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The irony is that Yudhoyono in his two terms in office dealt with four Australian prime ministers — John Howard, Kevin Rudd , Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott — the point being that at the leaders’ level Indonesia recently has been a more stable democracy than Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yudhoyono symbolises a high tide in Australia-Indonesia ties. His personal links with Howard saw a deeper partnership between the democracies and the negotiation of the 2006 Lombok Treaty that the Indonesians value highly. As a sophisticated thinker and internationalist, Yudhoyono had a genuine commitment to the relationship with Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the Yudhoyono era is gone. It was an opportunity for Australia, but may have created false expectations about our ability to manage ties with Jakarta. It may be many years before there is another Indonesian president with the equivalent commitment to relations with Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It would, however, be wrong to think there were no disruptions even under Yudhoyono. The moral is that leaders on both sides must manage the inevitable tensions between two nations so different in culture, religion, economy, living standards and strategic outlook.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Current President Joko Widodo is an unpredictable wild card for Australia — an inexperienced leader and a nationalistic populist. Widodo is extremely sensitive about Indonesia’s status, sceptical about rich-nation exploitation of developing nations and was ready to snub Australia over the executions of drug criminals Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran. His arrival means more testing times.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yudhoyono says: “I am hoping the first meeting between Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and President Joko Widodo has a good result, leading to better understanding and better personal co-operation.” Turnbull-Widodo seems, at initial appearances, not necessarily a perfect meeting of hearts and minds, though, of course, it defies prediction.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A realist, Yudhoyono believes two approaches are needed in bilateral ties: machinery to advance opportunities, and a capacity to manage the disputes and differences that will necessarily arise. He knows this from experience.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yudhoyono’s final years in office saw a serious disruption in relations with Abbott’s policy of <b>boat</b> turnbacks, revelations of alleged Australian phone-tapping of Indonesia going as far as the president’s wife, Ani Yudhoyono, Abbott’s refusal to apologise and Yudhoyono suspending military and intelligence co-operation and withdrawing for some months the Indonesian ambassador to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I am pleased to say that everything is back to normal,” Yudhoyono says, reflecting on this period. “All co-operation, military to military, police to police, intelligence to intelligence, is back to normal. I promised people that everything would be settled and we did it.” Yudhoyono says it had been his “personal objective” before he left office to ensure bilateral ties and co-operation had been fully restored.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“That was my objective,” he says. “It means we are in a better position now to work together in counter-terrorism, in dealing with terrorism, crimes and other security issues.” It was a critical decision. And it came from a judgment Yudho­yono made. The consequences were possibly far-reaching. The notion of having a new Indonesian president arrive in office with impaired bilateral ties would have been risky. Would Widodo have restored them? Would this have been his priority? Who knows?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In June 2014 at an Abbott-Yudhoyono “reconciliation” meeting on the Indonesian island of Batam, the conditions for restoration were established. There was subsequently a formal code of conduct agreed, saying neither nation would use intelligence to harm the other.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yudhoyono explains the cooling off in Indonesian domestic opinion had been basic to the settlement: “I could manage the anger and the protests from the Indonesian people over what had happened, so that domestically, politically, I could say to my people, ‘Look, this is the problem but we have overcome it.’ “So this is good for our people, good for our future relations and good for all our agencies that are working with Australia. I am confident about future relations and the sense they can be well maintained, even strengthened,” Yudhoyono says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He nominates three essential steps to deliver this result, the first being “that we have to stick with what we have created.” He means the 2005 strategic partnership and the Lombok Treaty the following year, the Yudhoyono-Howard compacts.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It sounds fine, except many Australians are clueless about what they mean and there is a critical provision, notably that neither country will support activity that constitutes a threat to the stability or territorial integrity of the other.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That is, the Australian government will not tolerate separatist movements in this country in relation to provinces such as Papua.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yudhoyono says of the Lombok Treaty: “It stated very clearly that Australia respects Indonesian territorial integrity. During 10 years in my presidency there was no problem at all in Australia in respect to our territorial integrity.” For Indonesia, this is a solemn Australian assurance. For Yudhoyono, it is fundamental to his legacy with Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Second, Yudhoyono says the bilateral dialogue, top to bottom, must be strengthened: he mentions personal relations between the leaders, ministers and agencies; that is, the political and working partnership. He offers the view, probably disputed by many, that Australia “will be more important to Indonesia in the future”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yudhoyono predicts Indonesia will become the world’s 10th largest economy by 2030 in terms of gross domestic product, with a rising consumer class and stronger purchasing power.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He invokes the potential in the Australia-Indonesia economic partnership: “If we could combine our potential and our resources, by creating new opportunities, trade and investment in food, energy and economic co-operation.” This is a long-discussed truth, yet still unrealised. As the Australia-India story reveals, the real key to bilateral “takeoff” and success is a thriving investment and trade partnership. That is yet to happen with Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Third, Yudhoyono says the countries must have a capacity to “continuously engage” and “solve problems” that challenge the relationship, with the boatpeople issue a prime example. On this question Yudhoyono is forceful, yet a touch apologetic.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He says: “It is not easy to find solutions. Indonesia has suffered actually in this matter; right now around 15,000 illegal migrants are staying in Indonesia, scattered from place to place. We have to find concrete, realistic and workable solutions.” In an obvious indirect critique of the Abbott government’s turnback policy, he says: “If we conduct unilateral actions, then it will be a problem for others. Why don’t we try to look, really seriously, to find concrete workable bilateral solutions?” But Yudhoyono is alert to Indonesia’s own failures, saying: “We have done our best in the past with intelligence co-operation, but in reality it is not easy realising the long coastal line of Indonesia.” He says “to be frank” it was difficult for Indonesia because it could not control every single <b>boat</b> that might have left for Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The reality, rarely conceded, is that Abbott’s policy really arose because Indonesia gave insufficient attention or turned a blind eye to the “smuggling trade” departure of boats for Australia. Yudhoyono’s bottom line was apparent. Indonesia wanted bilateral and regional solutions; it knew the difficulty; but it didn’t want Australian unilateralism. Have no doubt, this is an issue for the Turnbull government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yudhoyono took a harsh line on Islamist terrorism, calling this movement “a threat to all nations including Australia and Indonesia”. He says: “The position of the Indonesian government is clear — we reject ISIS both in Indonesia and the Middle East.” He lists a long series of steps taken by different authorities in Indonesia to thwart the threat. While the issue is yet to emerge, the coming threat to both Australia and Indonesia will arise when their nationals, now operating in Iraq and Syria, return home to further their violent campaigns.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yudhoyono is an optimist on the region. But he has a message — the future depends on a new balance of power to manage China. He puts pressure on China as a rising power: it has an obligation “to ensure peace and stability in the region”. Yudhoyono says he likes to use the term “strategic equilibrium” which, decoded, means ensuring a regional power balance among the players including Japan, Korea, India, Australia and ASEAN. It is Indonesia’s hope that the US “will be part of maintaining stability and order in the region”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The passing of the Yudhoyono era and the recent disruptions over boats, spying and executions reveal the imperative for Australia to adopt a new framework of realism in dealing with Indonesia. Recent experience verifies an old lesson — the sheer range of factors that can damage ties and that defy easy management.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The days when an aspiring prime minister will promise a foreign policy that is “more Jakarta, less Geneva”, as Abbott did before the 2013 election, are surely gone. It is folly for an Australian leader to ask his foreign policy to be judged according to ties with Jakarta. Those ties are as vital as ever. But they are risky and need risk management, particularly as Indonesian sentiment and its leaders become more nationalistic.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For Australia, rhetoric and expectations must become consistent with reality. It remains vital for our prime ministers to seek effective personal ties with the Indonesian president. It is leaders, ultimately, who make the big calls and the defining decisions. It is folly, however, to make this the test of diplomatic success and to parade the idea of Indonesia as a “special relationship”. What matters is deepening the practical relationship between agencies, advancing the mutual economic interest and putting the leadership dialogue on a working, practical basis.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>CO</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>tuowap : University of Western Australia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gdip : International Relations | gpol : Domestic Politics | nitv : Interviews | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfcpex : C&E Executive News Filter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | indon : Indonesia | jakar : Jakarta | waustr : Western Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | devgcoz : Emerging Market Countries | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | seasiaz : Southeast Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020150927eb9s0001p</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AGEE000020150927eb9s0001p" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Opinion - Opinion</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Walk in these people's shoes, Mr Turnbull</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>David Manne, Kate Bones - David Manne is executive director and Kate Bones is a lawyer at the <b>Refugee</b> & Immigration Legal Centre.  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1052 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>28 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The calculated cruelty of Manus and Nauru must stop, write David Manne and Kate Bones.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last week we saw the Australian government's first recognition that offshore processing of <b>asylum</b> seekers is a problem - a problem that won't go away. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's instinctive disquiet about the arrangements hinted at a deeper truth our country must confront: that this policy of exiling those seeking our protection to Manus Island (pictured) and Nauru is unsustainable on any measure - whether human, moral, legal, financial or practical.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As evidence mounts of the immense - and scandalous - human and financial costs of this policy, it was a timely acknowledgment that the policy has to change. We cannot keep spending billions of dollars to exile, incarcerate without end, and then ultimately destroy, vulnerable children, women and men - people we are morally and legally duty bound to protect.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Evidence of the cruelty and degradation inflicted on <b>asylum</b> seekers held on Nauru and Manus is overwhelming. A swath of reports from bodies such as the <span class="companylink">UN <b>Refugee</b> Agency</span>, <span class="companylink">Human Rights Watch</span> and <span class="companylink">Amnesty International</span> has consistently concluded that the policy is violating human rights and causing untold harm to people held there.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Independent bodies such as the <span class="companylink">Australian Human Rights Commission</span> and the Moss Inquiry have confirmed widespread allegations of child abuse, sexual assault and rape in detention on Nauru. Children are suffering from extreme physical, emotional, psychological and developmental distress tantamount to child abuse. Self-harm is rife. Doctors have spoken out against appalling inadequacies in medical care.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Perversely, these conditions replicate the kind of inhumanity from which so many <b>asylum</b> seekers have fled. People are detained indefinitely in subhuman conditions. Their freedom of expression and communication is suppressed. They are subject to additional brutality from those in power over them. A young Iranian man, Reza Berati, lost his life due to this brutality.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Despite serial denials by the government, as a matter of law there is no doubt that Australia is responsible for this deplorable harm, given that we fund and effectively control these operations on Manus and Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In these times of humanitarian crises and fiscal pressure, there are so many better ways that these billions of dollars could be spent. They could be applied to making an even greater contribution to protecting some of the 60 million people fleeing conflict and persecution globally, starting with those who've sought refuge here. While we've agreed to give an extra $44 million to the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> for the Syrian <b>refugee</b> crisis, we will spend more than 10 times that amount to continue the detention of the 1500 people on Nauru and Manus for another year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last year, the government-appointed Commission of Audit indirectly highlighted the case for change when it calculated that the annual cost of keeping an <b>asylum</b> seeker in offshore detention exceeded $400,000 - more than 10 times the cost of processing an <b>asylum</b> seeker in the Australian community.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For those subject to offshore processing, there is no end in sight. The proposed resettlement options for recognised refugees are expensive dead ends.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Recognised refugees on Manus Island are living in a funded "transit centre", with few basic freedoms, in fear and with no real prospects of resettlement in PNG. Even the improbable plan of "resettling" refugees in the impoverished and insecure Cambodia seems to have disintegrated, with just four refugees taking up the offer. This plan has cost Australia $55 million thus far - another stark sign of unsustainability.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's worth remembering that when offshore processing was revived in 2012, it was envisaged as only a short-term "circuit breaker" and not as a long-term solution. But as the policy now stands, people are being held in indefinite exile.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The principal justification remains the alleged necessity to deter others from coming by <b>boat</b>. But in truth, this conscious, calculated cruelty is not necessity - it's a choice. And the wrong one. The ethical rock on which our policies must stand is that it is never acceptable to inflict irreparable harm on innocent people we are obliged to protect.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We have shown our capacity for compassion in response to the Syrian crisis, lifting the intake of Syrian refugees by 12,000. Yet at the same time, our policies are rapidly destroying the lives of refugees on Nauru and Manus, including Syrians who have fled the very same dangers as those we've agreed to resettle. The inconsistency is impossible to reconcile.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And herein lies the rub - epitomised by Turnbull's swift transition from "concern" about the suffering of those in limbo to dispelling any hope of a major policy shift in the short-term which could alleviate it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Locking in a policy where the only outcome can be suffering without end is untenable. We must urgently move beyond sloganeering to an honest dialogue that recognises that the policy never was and never can be a long-term solution. There must be immediate action to improve conditions and ameliorate abuse while making those operating the camps more accountable. But we must also face the fact that offshore processing of this kind cannot be done humanely, and that human warehousing cannot be done decently.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The agony of those currently condemned to a life of limbo must end. Attention must turn to viable alternatives, which involve expanding resettlement options in places where those judged in need of protection can rebuild their lives in safety and with dignity. The billions current being invested in the misery of offshore processing should instead be spent developing a co-operative protection system in our region in which the responsibility for rescuing and resettling refugees humanely is shared among the countries of our region.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As Malcolm Turnbull said last week, it's important for leaders to possess "the empathy to walk in somebody else's shoes".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We, as a nation, must also find the moral and humanitarian imagination to walk in the shoes of those held in limbo on Manus and Nauru. If we don't, we place in jeopardy not only their lives, but the kind of society we want to live in.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | ghum : Human Rights/Civil Liberties | gpol : Domestic Politics | nedc : Commentaries/Opinions | gcat : Political/General News | gcom : Society/Community | gpir : Politics/International Relations | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfcpex : C&E Executive News Filter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>nauru : Nauru | austr : Australia | papng : Papua New Guinea | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | pacisz : Pacific Islands</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AGEE000020150927eb9s0001p</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-NORTHT0020150928eb9s00036" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Letters LETTER OF THE DAY <b>Asylum</b> seeker stance changes</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>226 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>28 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Northern Territory News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NORTHT</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NTNews</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PROBABLY ­the last useful act Tony Abbott did before the axe fell was to commit Australia to accommodating 12,000 Syrian refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It might, when history gets around to reviewing it, be one of the best things he did in his political life.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We now accept that refugees – those who flee their home through fear of war or persecution, or starvation, or because they can see no future for themselves or their children – are deserving of our ­assistance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Can we now rethink our ­attitude to those people we currently hold in detention for attempting to come to Australia by <b>boat</b>?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Perhaps not all those in ­detention are real refugees. That is why we have processing procedure: to decide who is genuine.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Around 90 per cent of applicants for <b>asylum</b> have, over the years, proved genuine, so let’s process them, not leave them to rot.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is an organisation in Darwin, DASSAN, which has supported, and advocated for, <b>asylum</b> seekers for many years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If you can see the need for change in our <b>refugee</b> policy, whether it’s on humanitarian or economic grounds (offshore detention is costing the taxpayer heaps of money), look them up on the net and get ­involved.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the words of Bob Dylan, “The times they are a-changing”.Vin Victory, Leanyer</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>PM could loosen strained ties</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Ross Taylor   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>927 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>28 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The West Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TWAU</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>15</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015, West Australian Newspapers Limited   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I ndonesian President Joko Widodo is not a shirtfront type-of-guy. The Javanese-born leader is everything that regular Indonesia commentators would define as classic Javanese: conservative, quietly spoken, non-confrontational yet determined, and religious. The latter is about the only thing he had in common with our recently deposed prime minister Tony Abbott.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Given the bumps in the bilateral relationship prior and since the coalition took office, a “warrior-style” leader such as Abbott was never going to become close mates with Jokowi, as he is known through Indonesia.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Once Malcolm Turnbull settles into his new office, along with Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, he will need to reflect on the difficult relationship both countries have endured over the past few years. Notwithstanding that under Bishop’s leadership Australia’s foreign policy is generally in good shape, there are some simple lessons that the new Prime Minister could embrace when dealing with our giant and near neighbour.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The most obvious is one that Turnbull will understand coming from a senior business background: In negotiations, always try to let the other side at least walk away with something. Abbott showed that this tactic was simply not in his DNA.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia has seen a number of lost opportunities in which to achieve the broad outcomes we wanted while still maintaining a good relationship with Indonesia. Consider just two examples: The turn-back-the-boats policy was a clear winner for the Abbott government. It took courage and determination to implement such a forceful policy given the protests from human rights groups and our regional neighbours.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The policy has worked, and in doing so the flood of Middle Eastern <b>asylum</b> seekers transiting through Indonesia en route to Australia slowed dramatically. This represented a solution for both countries, but a significant loss-of-face for Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the time there was an opportunity for Australia to inform Indonesia that while we would enforce the turn-back policy, we were prepared to work with Indonesia in order to process some of the (roughly) 10,000 <b>asylum</b> seekers suddenly stranded in Indonesia with nowhere to go. Given that some of these people were refugees, it would have been relatively easy for Australia to accept a small number of them into Australia. Arguably, a sensible and fair gesture.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More recently, Indonesia has been keen to remove the $US35 Visa-on-Arrival fee that every one of the one million Australians each year must pay when arriving into Bali. The VoA is actually a tax, not a visa fee, and it causes additional costs to inbound tourists while adding considerable processing time at Bali’s International Airport.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indonesia asked Australia if we could reciprocate to make it easier for Indonesians to visit Australia; not a bad idea given Australia’s need to attract tourists and Indonesia having a huge emerging middle-class with money to spend on tourism-related travel. Australia was never going to offer Indonesian visitors visa-free access to our country, but we could have offered a face-saving and practical alternative given that it costs a Balinese family of four, for example, $520 to just apply for a visa to holiday in Perth plus pages of application forms rather than online access afforded to Singapore and Malaysia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There was the opportunity for a compromise.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sadly, in both these examples the “Nope, nope, nope” hardline approach prevailed, resulting in the Indonesian Foreign Minister announcing that the VoA for Australians would remain, and ill-feeling about <b>boat</b> turn-backs cemented in their political memories. To Indonesia, Australia’s attitude was: “Be reasonable, just do it our way.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Our new Prime Minister does not need to revert to the unrealistic and patronising, “Less Geneva, more Jakarta” approach adopted when Abbott first became prime minister, but rather recognise that there are practical initiatives available to both countries, including removing red tape to allow the exchange of young people more freely.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">During the tumultuous events surrounding the executions of Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, Turnbull demonstrated how a considered non-combative style could be used effectively when dealing with Asia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While Abbott was reminding Indonesia that we donated over $1 billion to the Aceh tsunami appeal, and therefore they owed us a favour by pardoning Chan and Sukumaran, Turnbull reminded Indonesia that as they fought for their independence from foreign rule in 1945, only one western country stood by and supported Indonesia as a friend: Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was a powerful yet subtle statement. Some may argue that it didn’t stop the execution of these two Australians, but Turnbull’s comments — had he been prime minister — would not have polarised opinion in Indonesia that Australia was threatening their sovereignty and nationalism as did Abbott’s comments, and in doing so putting back the continuing debate within Indonesia about the death penalty by 10 years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As the Jokowi Government continues to be far more nationalistic and inward-looking, despite Jakarta’s preference for Turnbull as Prime Minister, we should not expect a sudden boost in the relationship. But in reviewing our approach to Indonesia, a recent comment by former army chief Professor Peter Leahy that Australia needs to “stop seeing Indonesia as a potential enemy but rather as a potential ...partner” maybe a good starting point for our recently refreshed government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Getting the broader Australian community to embrace this view, however, may prove to be much harder.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He demonstrated a non-combative style could be used effectively.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ross Taylor AM is the President of the Indonesia Institute Inc.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gdip : International Relations | gpol : Domestic Politics | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>indon : Indonesia | austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | devgcoz : Emerging Market Countries | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | seasiaz : Southeast Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>West Australian Newspapers Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document TWAU000020150927eb9s00037</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020150927eb9s0001x" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Media</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Aunty in legal bid for award entries</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>LEO SHANAHAN EXCLUSIVE   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>541 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>28 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>23</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The ABC is demanding the Walkley and Kennedy Award foundations hand over entries submitted by a Fairfax journalist in a bid to attack the character of the award-winning reporter ­currently suing ABC’s Media Watch program.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last week, lawyers for the ABC took the unusual step of issuing subpoenas to the Walkley Foundation — Australia’s premier journalistic awards and advisory body — as well as the Kennedy Award Foundation — NSW’s top journalism awards body — to gain Natalie O’Brien’s award entries as part of the 18-month legal feud with the journalist.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">O’Brien, an investigative journalist with The Sun-Herald and The Sydney Morning Herald, is suing the ABC after Paul Barry’s Media Watch attacked her report alleging poisonous chemicals were detected near a children’s park in July 2013.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The allegations were made on the July 29, 2013 Media Watch program after O’Brien wrote two stories about possible contamination in an area near an old chemical plant in Sydney.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last Friday ABC lawyers issued subpoenas through NSW Supreme Court to gain access to O’Brien’s 2014 Kennedy entry, which won her the award for ­environmental coverage for a series of stories critical of the Environmental Protection Authority.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While O’Brien mentioned the poisoned park story in her Kennedy entry statement it was not one of the stories included in the award-winning entry — announced nearly a year after the Media Watch program.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The ABC request for the 2012 highly commended Walkley entry appears even less relevant to the case as it was concerned with the whereabouts of a missing <b>asylum</b>-seeker <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Failure of either organisation to comply with the orders — which are also seeking correspondence and entry terms and conditions — would be contempt of court and result in ­arrest of the responsible officer from either body.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Australian understands the demands on the Walkley and Kennedy foundations may be a bid by the ABC to discredit O’Brien in a search for possible breaches of entry rules and lessen the quantum of a compensation payout.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Previously the ABC subpoenaed <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> to get access to a series of O’Brien’s files, in a process costing taxpayers almost $20,000 in legal fees and forcing Fairfax lawyers to redact hundreds of documents that could expose confidential sources.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The case is understood to have cost taxpayers at least $100,000 in legal fees thus far with the ABC briefing silk Peter Gray SC and a trial due to begin in November.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Australian understands the ABC made a settlement offer to O’Brien in recent months to pay her legal fees and issue a clarification but offered no damages. O’Brien is understood to have rejected the offer.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A spokesman for the ABC ­declined to comment on why the subpoenas were issued only saying the ABC does not comment on current legal matters.O’Brien’s lawyer Richard Mitry told The Australian the journalist would have nothing to hide. “Ms O’Brien will be seeking to demonstrate to the court that she is an award-winning and highly reputable journalist, and that the ABC unjustifiably aired content which served to damage that reputation.”</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>CO</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>aubc : Australian Broadcasting Corp</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>IN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>i97411 : Broadcasting | imed : Media/Entertainment</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>ccat : Corporate/Industrial News | ccawrd : Corporate Awards | gcrim : Crime/Courts | gcat : Political/General News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | nswals : New South Wales | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020150927eb9s0001x</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-SMHH000020150927eb9s00009" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Maths whiz leaves crowded <b>boat</b> behind</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Georgina Mitchell   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>628 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>28 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Life transformation - After 2½ years in detention, this former <b>asylum</b> seeker has a powerful message</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When Michael Ascharsobi arrived in Australia as a teenager, he didn't speak a word of English. He had only seen - not touched - a computer at his high school in Iran, and had never heard of the internet.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now, the 30-year-old has a wide network of friends around Australia. He teaches at the <span class="companylink">University of Technology, Sydney</span>, works for <span class="companylink">Google</span>, and helps to mentor high school and university students on achieving their dreams.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His is a remarkable story of resilience. At 16, a promising student in mathematics, he was one of a handful of students chosen to represent his country at an international competition. But when authorities realised he observed a minority religion, he was threatened with death and had to flee with his family.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He escaped to Indonesia, where he boarded a crowded fishing <b>boat</b> that would take a week to reach Christmas Island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On arrival, Ascharsobi was taken to immigration detention with his mother, father, sister, niece and sister's husband, where the family would stay for 2½ years, a confinement not without its impacts.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ascharsobi used the time productively. He befriended guards to learn new words, taught himself English, and learnt about computers by reading magazines and tinkering for upwards of 12 hours a day on a computer of his own.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I think it was a Pentium 4 or a Pentium 3," Ascharsobi says, sitting in <span class="companylink">Google</span>'s Sydney headquarters. "We were able to work in detention and we got $1 per hour so after a year and a half of working, I managed to save up about $1400. I was 18½."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The money was usually spent on chips and chocolates, but he says it "wasn't that hard" to forgo them with the goal of a computer. When he finally convinced guards to let him buy one, he wasn't quite sure how it all worked.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I pretty much just played around with it," he said. "They used to have a computer room with four computers so I got to sort of be a supervisor in this computer room and I helped to solve a lot of issues.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Later on I got some computer magazines from my pen-friend, and some of the security guards also brought in magazines. I read them and went 'oh, let's do this and see what happens'. I pretty much kept busy for 12 hours to 16 hours every day."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While he learnt computers, he was also teaching himself English.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As his English improved, he corresponded with 20 pen pals from around the country, taking his letters to the guards to get their help correcting his spelling.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When his <b>asylum</b> claim was accepted, his family moved to Fairfield in Sydney's west. Within two weeks of being released, he had signed up to an Information Technology course at TAFE, which gave him the foundation to get a scholarship to study the subject at UTS.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When he graduated, he got a job with technology company <span class="companylink">Cisco</span>, then was recruited to <span class="companylink">Google</span>. His highlight at the company has been revolutionising their "ticketing" system - the virtual queue they use to offer IT support to companies who use <span class="companylink">Google</span> products. He invented and developed it in his spare time and it's now used by 2000 employees around the world.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While he now fits in so well, he will never forget the 2½ years he thought he might be spending life in a detention centre.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In speeches to students, he says: "I make sure that I send the message of 'don't let anything hold you back, go get what you want'."</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>CO</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>utsaus : University of Technology, Sydney | goog : Google Inc.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>IN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>i8395464 : Internet Search Engines | iint : Internet/Online | itech : Technology</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gedu : Education | gcat : Political/General News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | sydney : Sydney | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | nswals : New South Wales</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document SMHH000020150927eb9s00009</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-COUMAI0020150927eb9r0003h" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Lifestyle</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Life in the fast lane</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Leanne Edmistone   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>963 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>27 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>UOnSunday</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After fleeing war-torn Africa in childhood, these two friends now call Australia home and are helping new arrivals settle in PAUL JOSEPH, 21, MT GRAVATT EAST</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I was born in Sudan, but grew up in Kenya in a <b>refugee</b> camp with my parents Grace and Joseph, and brothers Emmanuel, 25, and Samuel, 18.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We left Sudan because my parents couldn’t see any future there. In the <b>refugee</b> camp there was a lot of starvation, dehydration and fighting between Kenyans and other refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I was seven when we arrived in Brisbane in March, 2001. My dad works at an organisation called Care as a project manager, and Mum is at home. I also have three younger sisters now – Joanna, 13, Edina, 10, and Agnes, 4.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">First I went to Yeronga State School and did an English as a Second Language (ESL) program there, then I went to Mount Gravatt State High School for Years 8, 9 and 10, and then Cavendish Road State High School for senior. Now I’m in my second year of a Bachelor of International Tourism and Hotel Management at <span class="companylink">Griffith University</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I’m heavily involved in the local African community and I’m the youth leader for the Queensland African Community Council (QACC). I’m also the chair of a newly established group called Multicultural Youth Queensland (MYQ) council. The biggest issues are trying to balance cultural beliefs and understanding the Australian culture. Unemployment is definitely one of the biggest ones, and racism is still one of those ones that I hear about.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I also work as a youth worker at Access Community Services and during my time here, I managed the Arts portfolio, which enabled me to run workshops, including African drumming, music and dance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I run for a club called Fast Track Athletics, and train at the Queensland Athletics Centre four days a week. I do the 100m, 200m and 400m. In 2013, I was selected to travel to the America by Sports Scholarship USA, to train and compete in Los Angeles. I definitely want to be able to represent the Australian team at the Olympics or Commonwealth Games, or if that falls through, I would definitely love to represent South Sudan.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I met Thomas through my coach at athletics training. He’s a runner as well. We became friends through training and then both of us started volunteering at Access Community Services. Thomas is a passionate young person, he cares and looks out for everyone.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We do quite a lot together actually. We not only train together, but we go to church together at Hillsong Brisbane, and both of us are heavily involved with QACC.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sport always seems to bring people together and I think that’s definitely the way to break down some of these barriers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THOMAS BABEY, 21, GOODNA I was born in Sudan, but there was a civil war going on at the time, so we had no option but to flee the country. My parents Katarina Sua and Stephen Nyewe, two younger brothers Nelson and Sunday, and I migrated to Ethiopia where we lived in a <b>refugee</b> camp for about two years, then our visa got accepted to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We lived in Perth for 10 years, where my dad worked in the mines. I now have a sister Thoka, 15, and two more brothers, Ethah, 7, and Girah, two months. I moved to Brisbane in 2010, by myself, because I just thought there would be more opportunities education-wise.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I lived with my uncle, but my family moved here at the end of last year. Because the states were different I had to repeat Year 11, so I graduated in 2011 from Yeronga State High School. I did digital media, but now I’m studying audio engineering and sound production at JMC Academy, South Brisbane. I play piano and guitar.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Music is a way that helps me release stress and feel like I’m comfortable. Paul and I met through athletics. I was brought to the Queensland Sports and Athletics Centre by a friend one day and we introduced ourselves at the track. Paul and I get along really well because we share a similar experience, we have a lot of things in common, and we’re always so eager to help other young people who are in the same <b>boat</b> as us.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Paul, I look at him as a brother. He always inspires me by what he does. He’s still young and he’s so busy, so involved heavily in his community. He’s just very helpful, and I’m inspired by what he has done.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At Access Community Services I’m one of the youth workers and what we do is we help young people from migrant backgrounds settle into Australia. We put on activities that help with life skills and mentoring projects. I help the sports co-ordinator with coaching cricket and soccer, and help referee. Recently we helped a group of young people put a dance routine together to perform at the Queensland Music Festival Under the Skies concert at Logan.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What I get out of it is excitement and joy in helping young people feel welcome into a new country because it’s pretty hard settling in, especially not knowing anything about the country. A lot of young people suffer from feeling left out and I always want to get other people involved and put a smile on their face.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I started running in 2012. I train at QSAC four days a week – Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. I’m hoping to take it right through to the Olympics.Sport is something you don’t need a language for ... it’s an easy way to communicate.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gcat : Political/General News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | brisbn : Brisbane | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | queensl : Queensland</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document COUMAI0020150927eb9r0003h</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-SHD0000020150926eb9r00030" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Money</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Steered in the wrong direction on rental</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>GEORGE COCHRANE   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>920 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>27 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sun Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SHD</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">YOUR QUESTIONS</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I am 74 and a self-funded, low-income retiree. Both my wife of 50 years, who is 70, and I live a very quiet lifestyle.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">My mother got financial advice before very reluctantly going into an aged care facility. She always intended to return home and definitely didn't want her home sold.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The only thing our financial adviser didn't address was land tax and my wife emailed him about that specific matter.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He knew the background of the case and also knew that she intended renting out her home in order to pay ongoing care expenses. We still have this email in which he replied that he didn't know but would ask someone who did and came back with the answer that my mother's home would be exempt for six years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">My mother passed away last year and I found out from her solicitor that I had inherited her home (which was her only asset).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After my mother went into the care facility, my wife and I spent eight months and a lot of our superannuation getting her home up to the standard where it could be rented out.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I went into the Parramatta office of State Revenue to get the form to complete and was then asked by a staff member for the address of the property. She said it showed on their computer screen that the property had been rented out since April 2011 and would this be correct?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Both my wife and I agreed with her that this sounded correct. She then said I may have to pay land tax from that time until now and that the advice of the financial adviser was rubbish. R.B.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">NSW does have a six-year exemption period if you move out of your home but it does not apply if the owner is in a hospital or aged care facility i.e. in full-time care, as was your mother.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For anyone else in a similar situation, the rules are a little tricky. During the six-year period of exemption from land tax, you can only rent it for up to six months.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If it is rented for longer than that, the exemption will be lost unless the rental income is no more than is required to pay regular outgoings such as council, water and energy rates, and maintenance costs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The definition of maintenance costs is quite broad and, apart from plumbing and electrical repairs, may include garden care and house and pool cleaning but excludes mortgage repayments.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See the notes on exemptions and concessions in the land tax section on the NSW State Revenue Office website at osr.nsw.gov.au. Victoria has similar rules, see the State Revenue Office website at sro.vic.gov.au.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">My husband and I are 73 years old. We have $100,000 in super, $500,000 in a share portfolio, and two investment properties worth about $600,000 each.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We are asset rich and income poor and so we intend to sell one of the properties to give us a cash flow. Can we each buy an allocated pension with the money, or can such a pension only be bought with money in superannuation? M.M.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Allocated pensions are a form of superannuation pension and hence can only be bought with money in superannuation, hence you can begin a pension with your $100,000 in super, (or pensions if you each have super benefits. Super is never jointly owned.)</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It may be a good time to sell at least one property as the residential boom in Sydney and Melbourne appears to be cooling. If the boom was largely supported by overseas buying, as many say it is (or was) then a withdrawal of overseas buyers for whatever reason could lead to significant falls in residential prices, especially among home units.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As is common at the top of property booms, a record number of units are being planned as the peak in interest passes (if, in fact, it has been reached). As a consequence, many of the proposed developments never see the light of day.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If prices fall as interest rates rise in the next two to three years, then those people who over-borrowed will experience financial problems, again a common occurrence in the aftermath of a property boom.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I'm a "<b>boat</b> people", a <b>refugee</b> with elementary English and will retire in a few years. I was bewildered with the superannuation and tax system for retirees, the technical terms like PSSdb, annuities etc.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By following your answers and explanations in the weekend newspaper over the years, things are clearer and I got a fair idea of what to do and expect when I retire in 2019. Your column is instructive, I learn a lot from it and am grateful for your succinct detailed replies. You do a great, valuable service to the community. V.V.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Thank you for that and welcome to Oz! I too was an immigrant, arriving a decade or more before the wave of Vietnamese <b>boat</b> people. By the way, it would still be worthwhile getting financial advice as you approach retirement, starting off with any free advice offered by your superannuation fund.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If you have a question for George Cochrane, send it to Sunday Money, PO Box 3001, Tamarama, NSW, 2026. All questions answered. Help lines: Financial Ombudsman, 1300 780 808; <span class="companylink">Centrelink</span> pensions, 13 23 00.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Indonesia steps up smuggling patrols</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>PETER ALFORD GITA ATHIKA. EXCLUSIVE </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>487 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>26 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indonesia’s national police are mobilising to counter a threatened upsurge in people-smuggling.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Prison authorities are also investigating an allegation, reported yesterday by The Australian, that several jailed operators have ­resumed efforts to organise boats.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The flurry of counter-smuggling efforts in Jakarta follows Wednesday’s discovery of 18 foreign passengers and three Indonesian crew on a crippled fishing <b>boat</b> at Cidaun, an isolated West Java coastal locale.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was the Indonesian authorities’ first-known detection of an ­active operation this year, revealing agents in the Jakarta-Cisarua area were seeking passengers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One of the Bangladeshi men on Wednesday’s <b>boat</b> told The Australian he and others were recruited last week in Cisarua, a gathering place for <b>asylum</b>-­seekers south of the capital.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The new sales pitch by the remnants of the smuggling networks — burgeoning until then prime minister Kevin Rudd slammed the door on <b>boat</b> arrivals in 2013 — is that Australia has a new government, softer on refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They began selling this proposition when Tony Abbott ’s cabinet accepted 12,000 refugees displaced by the Syrian conflict, followed days later by Malcolm Turnbull’s ouster of Mr Abbott.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Prime Minister and Immigration Minister Peter Dutton have made statements this week, directed at potential <b>asylum</b>- seekers abroad, denying any easing of hardline border security.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We remain as committed as ever to implementing tough policies that stop vulnerable people being exploited by criminals, prevent further loss of life at sea and ultimately keep people-smugglers out of business,” Mr Dutton said yesterday. “I have a very clear message for anyone considering joining an illegal <b>boat</b> venture to Australia: our policy has not changed, and will not change.” Jakarta-based <span class="companylink">Australian Federal Police</span> officers were in Cianjur, West Java, yesterday to exchange information with local police about suspected organisers of the Wednesday <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The three crewmen are being questioned in custody. Cianjur police chief Asep Guntur Rahayu said a decision would be made next week on charging them with people-trafficking.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Following Wednesday’s discovery, surveillance has resumed of previously active smuggling areas in Java and patrols are being stepped up.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A spokesman for the Justice Ministry’s corrections division said the allegation of organisers operating out of jails would be investigated. The claim was made by a credible source in the Hazara community, the largest group of <b>asylum</b>-seekers trapped in Indonesia by Australia’s closing its borders to <b>boat</b> arrivals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, spokesman Akbar Hadi Prabowo said authorities were restricted in controlling crimi­nal activity in jails, particularly detecting mobile phones.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said the service was aware of frequent allegations in the past that convicted people-smugglers had organised boats from jail.“We raid the cells at least once a week but our prisons do not have proper equipment such as phone detectors and metal detector,” he said. He hoped for updated equipment this year.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Coalition may have been riding Rudd's coat tails over reduction in <b>boat</b> arrivals</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Nicole Hasham </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>450 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>26 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The federal government's claim that it "stopped the boats" has been called into doubt by analysis showing <b>asylum</b> seeker arrivals slowed dramatically after the former Labor government toughened its border stance, suggesting the Coalition "vastly overrated" its contribution.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The analysis, by former Immigration Department chief John Menadue and <span class="companylink">Australian National University</span> migration expert Peter Hughes , shows the drop-off began immediately after former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced in mid- 2013 that <b>asylum</b> seekers who arrived on unauthorised boats would never be resettled in Australia.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When Prime Minister Tony Abbott took power a few months later "the flow of maritime arrivals was well on its way to being finished as a result of measures already taken" by Labor, the analysis said, adding the Coalition's role "was at the margins and vastly overrated".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said Labor's earlier dismantling of Howard government border policies triggered the surge in <b>boat</b> arrivals and "the Abbott government stopped the boats".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Under a controversial policy instigated by Labor, <b>asylum</b> seekers who arrive by <b>boat</b> are held and processed offshore at Manus Island and Nauru, and permanently denied refuge in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The measure was announced in July 2013, a month when 48 boats arrived. This dropped to 25 boats in August and 15 in September, when Labor lost power.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It continued falling to about five a month until December 2013, when the Abbott government began turning <b>asylum</b> seeker boats back to other nations.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last month Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said the government had turned back 20 boats since it won office - an average of one a month. The analysis said: "Arguably, <b>boat</b> turn-backs would not have been successful at all without the July 2013 decision ... it's hard to believe that it would have been physically possible to turn back 48 boats [a month]".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It pointed to other Labor measures that helped stem the flow of boats: "enhanced screening" of Sri Lankan <b>asylum</b> seekers that forced many to return home quickly, and the decision by Indonesia, at Australia's urging, to stop issuing Iranians with visas on arrival.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Hughes and Mr Menadue said when in opposition the Coalition blocked legislative changes that would have enabled <b>asylum</b> seeker processing in Malaysia, which "kept the door open for tens of thousands of <b>boat</b> arrivals".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor immigration spokesman Richard Marles said the party's offshore processing policy had a "profound impact on stopping the flow of vessels between Java and Christmas Island" and an end to deaths at sea "could have been achieved much sooner had the Liberals not opposed Labor's Malaysian solution".</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>CO</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>ausuni : Australian National University</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gpol : Domestic Politics | gimm : Migration | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | indon : Indonesia | nauru : Nauru | papng : Papua New Guinea | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | devgcoz : Emerging Market Countries | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | pacisz : Pacific Islands | seasiaz : Southeast Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document SMHH000020150925eb9q00031</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AGEE000020150925eb9q00006" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Did Tony Abbott stop the boats. Or was it Labor?</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Nicole Hasham </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>602 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>26 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The federal government's claim that it "stopped the boats" has been called into doubt by analysis showing <b>asylum</b> seeker arrivals slowed dramatically after the Labor government toughened its border stance, hinting the Coalition "vastly overrated" its contribution.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The analysis, by former Immigration Department chief John Menadue and <span class="companylink">Australian National University</span> migration expert Peter Hughes , shows the drop-off began after former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced in mid 2013 that <b>asylum</b> seekers who arrived on unauthorised boats would never be resettled in Australia.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When Prime Minister Tony Abbott took power a few months later "the flow of maritime arrivals was well on its way to being finished as a result of measures taken" by Labor, the analysis said, adding the Coalition's role "was at the margins and vastly overrated".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said Labor's dismantling of Howard government border policies triggered the surge in <b>boat</b> arrivals and "the Abbott government stopped the boats".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Under a controversial policy instigated by Labor, <b>asylum</b> seekers who arrive by <b>boat</b> are held and processed at Manus Island and Nauru, and permanently denied refuge in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The measure was announced in July 2013, a month when 48 boats arrived. This fell to 25 boats in August and 15 in September, when Labor lost power.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It continued falling to about five a month until December 2013, when the Abbott government began turning <b>asylum</b> seeker boats back to other nations.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last month Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said the government had turned back 20 boats since it won office - an average of one a month.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The analysis said: "Arguably, <b>boat</b> turn-backs would not have been successful at all without the July 2013 decision … it's hard to believe that it would have been physically possible to turn back 48 boats [a month]".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It pointed to other Labor measures that helped stem the flow of boats: "enhanced screening" of Sri Lankan <b>asylum</b> seekers that forced many to return home quickly, and the decision by Indonesia, at Australia's urging, to stop issuing Iranians with visas on arrival.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Hughes and Mr Menadue said when in opposition the Coalition blocked legislative changes that would have enabled <b>asylum</b> seeker processing in Malaysia, which "kept the door open for tens of thousands of <b>boat</b> arrivals".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Menadue is a former secretary of the Immigration Department, and was head of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet under Malcolm Fraser and Gough Whitlam.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Hughes is a former senior policy official at the Immigration Department and later advised the department on the proposed Malaysia deal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton said Operation Sovereign Borders and <b>boat</b> turn-backs "showed the people smugglers they were dealing with a government that would be resolute in shutting down the illegal trade".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"From the moment Labor dispensed with the Howard-era border protection measures the people smugglers were in business and the boats started flowing," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Offshore processing and denying unauthorised <b>boat</b> arrivals settlement in Australia were policies the Coalition held in opposition, Mr Dutton said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor immigration spokesman Richard Marles said the party's offshore processing policy had a "profound impact on stopping the flow of vessels between Java and Christmas Island" and an end to deaths at sea "could have been achieved much sooner had the Liberals not opposed Labor's Malaysian solution".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> arrivals 2013-14</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">July 2013: Kevin Rudd announces <b>asylum</b> seekers arriving on unauthorised boats will never be settled in Australia</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sept 2013: The Abbott government wins power</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dec 2013: The Abbott government's <b>boat</b> turnback policy begins</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>CO</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>ausuni : Australian National University</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gpol : Domestic Politics | gimm : Migration | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AGEE000020150925eb9q00006</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-CANBTZ0020150925eb9q0003p" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Coalition taking too much credit for stopping boats</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By Nicole Hasham </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>308 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>26 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A004</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015 The Canberra Times </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By Nicole Hasham</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Coalition taking too much credit for stopping boats</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The federal government's claim that it "stopped the boats" has been called into doubt by analysis showing <b>asylum</b> seeker arrivals slowed dramatically after the former Labor government toughened its border stance, suggesting the Coalition "vastly overrated" its contribution. The analysis, by former Immigration Department chief John Menadue and <span class="companylink">Australian National University</span> migration expert Peter Hughes , shows the</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">drop-off began immediately after former prime minister Kevin Rudd had announced in mid-2013 that <b>asylum</b> seekers who arrived on unauthorised boats would never be resettled in Australia. When Tony Abbott took power a few months later, "the flow of maritime arrivals was well on its way to being finished as a result of measures already taken" by Labor, and the Coalition's role "was at the margins and vastly overrated", the analysis said. But Immigration Minister</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Peter Dutton said Labor's earlier dismantling of Howard government border policies triggered the surge in <b>boat</b> arrivals and "the Abbott government stopped the boats". Under a controversial policy instigated by Labor, <b>asylum</b> seekers who arrive by <b>boat</b> are held and processed offshore at Manus Island and Nauru, and permanently denied refuge in Australia. The measure was announced in July 2013, a month when 48 boats arrived. This dropped to 25 boats in</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">August and 15 in September, when Labor lost power. It kept falling to about five a month until December 2013, when the Abbott government began turning back <b>asylum</b> seeker boats to other nations. Last month Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said the government had turned back 20 boats since it won office - an average of one a month. The analysis said: "Arguably, <b>boat</b> turn-backs would not have been successful at all without the July 2013 decision." </p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Most of us are '<b>boat</b> people'</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Bill Wright   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>824 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>26 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Newcastle Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NEHR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>19</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.fd.com.au[http://www.fd.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">opinion THEIR SAY</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Stop manipulating words and start helping people, writes Bill Wright.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For those who've come across the seas</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We've boundless plains to share</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">RECENTLY a member of my staff, noting the title of this year's Social Justice Statement For those who've come across the seas: Justice for refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers , remarked: "Doesn't it make you feel guilty when you sing those words, since we don't seem so keen to welcome refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers?"</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I couldn't agree more. At times, in fact, I haven't quite been able to sing along to that verse, so cruelly untrue did it seem. The sentiments of our national anthem are admirable - but they must be more than sentiments.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was fortuitous that the 2015-16 Social Justice Statement, an annual statement by the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, was issued on the day then prime minister Tony Abbott announced that 12,000 refugees from Syria would be permanently resettled in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The government's decision was clearly a response to mounting calls for compassion and practical help for those displaced and despairing people. This sort of response is a far better expression of our national character than detaining thousands of refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers - including children - in offshore detention centres such as Nauru, Christmas Island and Manus Island. Reports of the abuse in these centres only make the matter more heartbreaking and shame-inducing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After all, we Australians can remember with some pride that immediately after World War II we undertook to accept 100,000 people from the displaced persons camps of Europe, setting something of an example to the free world. In the end, we took many thousands more of them, into a much smaller and poorer Australia than now, while still receiving another two million or so conventional migrants in the post-war decade.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the years after the Vietnam War, many thousands of Vietnamese refugees escaping the communist regime were accepted into Australia. In the main, they worked hard and made lives for themselves and their children. They were called "<b>boat</b> people", and I believe many Australians were - and are − in awe of their courage, resilience and determination to succeed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Somewhere along the way, in a country where almost all of us are "<b>boat</b> people", a culture of fear-mongering - its catchcry "Stop the boats" - developed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I have never believed that the majority of Australians saw refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers as the enemy, to be resisted at all costs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In fact the injustice and immorality of spending billions detaining people in need must be questioned. In the words of the statement: "The financial cost to Australians has been huge. In 2014-15, Australia devoted almost $3 billion to onshore and offshore detention and community placement services for several thousand <b>asylum</b> seekers. The budget for the Manus Island and Nauru facilities alone was over $820 million. The <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> has a budget of around $5.5 billion to attend to the needs of almost 60 million people around the world."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Manipulation of language has been key to the politics surrounding treatment of refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers. Language like "illegals", "queue jumpers" and "Stop the boats" (ignoring the fact that many more refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers arrive by air) are grossly inaccurate and ignore the inherent dignity of each of these individuals. The statement says: "Today, the panic and mistrust that is stirred up by this debate is out of all proportion to the true scale of the issue in Australia."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With a new Prime Minister and Cabinet, I hope and pray that compassion, enlightenment and honesty will prevail, although on Wednesday the Prime Minister ruled out resettling in Australia any <b>asylum</b> seekers in offshore detention. A more compassionate approach would involve not only caring for the Syrian refugees who will arrive shortly, but addressing the desperate needs of those already incarcerated in detention centres.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Asylum</b> seekers in our detention centres are quite deliberately nameless and faceless. If we could see these people and hear their stories, would the Australian public's seeming indifference be challenged? Would we demand justice as we did when we saw Aylan Kurdi on that Turkish beach?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As the Social Justice Statement points out: "Mandatory offshore detention does not save lives. Recent immigration ministers from both sides of politics admitted as much to the Human Rights Commission. There is no evidence that measures like suspending <b>refugee</b> status determination and denying resettlement in Australia will stem the flow of people seeking <b>asylum</b>."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Catholic Church cares for refugees locally through CatholicCare <b>Refugee</b> Service and I have been heartened by expressions of support for welcoming Syrian refugees to the Hunter and Manning regions. I encourage all of you to be ready to assist by offering material, spiritual and emotional support.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bishop Bill Wright is bishop of the Catholic diocese of Maitland-Newcastle</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Despair reigns over forgotten people</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Michael Gordon   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2087 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>26 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>30</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Manus Island - ‘If I wait for eight years, maybe my mum die. Maybe I die. This is not good.’</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When Loghman Sawari became the first <b>refugee</b> to attempt suicide after being released from the detention centre on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island, the reaction was as swift as it was brutal.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The teenager was transferred not in an ambulance, but in the back of the 10-seat vehicle of the island's police commissioner, and not to the hospital, but to the local lock-up, where he spent 24 hours in a small cell with about 20 locals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His enduring memory is the mosquitoes, especially the one that bit him deep inside his right ear. The locals left him alone.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When he arrived back at the guarded transit centre that has been his home for the last five months, he was warned that he would face a much longer stretch in jail if he tried to take his life again.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For the first few months of his captivity in Papua New Guinea, Sawari was an aberration: the boy in a detention centre that is supposed to be exclusively for single men. He was 17 when he arrived in Papua New Guinea in August 2013, one month after the then Labor government decided to remove children and family groups from the detention centre.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He has the letter from Australian immigration officials confirming his age and telling him he would be "treated as a minor for the purposes of accommodation, placement and other purposes".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He remained in isolation until his 18th birthday, when he was told he would be staying. The smug expression on the face of the official who conveyed this news is etched in his memory.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now he is a contradiction: a certified <b>refugee</b> who tried to take his life after finally being given the recognition that <b>asylum</b> seekers crave, the status that differentiates those found to be owed protection and the opportunity to rebuild shattered lives from the rest. It isn't supposed to work that way.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What compelled the 19-year-old to turn a towel into a makeshift noose, attach it to a rafter outside his room and step from a chair to oblivion is hardly a mystery. His bottom lip trembles uncontrollably as he tries to explain that anger, despair and an all-consuming sense of hopelessness propelled him.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Anger at the local immigration officer who, he says, incited him to go ahead when, out of frustration, Sawari told the officer he planned to kill himself. With calculated indifference, he says the officer replied that he was now free to do whatever he liked.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Despair that the prospect of seeing the mother he misses desperately is as distant now as it was when he was first taken to Manus against his will from Christmas Island. He has been told he will have to wait eight years to either travel to see his mother or sponsor her to join him. "If I wait for eight years, maybe my mum die. Maybe I die. This is not good."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And hopelessness, because each day passes so slowly he says it feels like a year. Tablet-induced sleep offers the only respite, except when it leads to the recurring nightmare that terrifies him, where five menacing dogs stand before him, and the biggest one is jet black and demands money he doesn't have.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When the lightly framed Sawari arrived at the transit accommodation in April, there were only 12 other residents. Now there are more than 50 others in the same situation: recognised as refugees, but denied almost all the basic rights that are supposed to come with <b>refugee</b> status.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They cannot earn a living, learn, move freely, buy property or be reunited with family members. For the Rohingyas among them, it is a reminder of what they left behind in Myanmar, except that the threat of extreme physical violence is much reduced. Others come from the Sudan, Iraq, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Pakistan.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They are the forgotten exceptions to the generosity of one of the last decisions of Tony Abbott's prime ministership: the commitment to resettle 12,000 refugees from the conflict in Syria and northern Iraq.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They are also the cruel, lingering footnote to one of Abbott's proudest achievements: stopping the boats. Their continued misery, and that of those in limbo on Nauru (at a cost to taxpayers of more than $900 million a year), is considered essential to deter others from trying to come by <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia's new and popular Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, says one of the most important qualities for a leader is to possess "emotional intelligence and the empathy and the imagination that enables you to walk in somebody else's shoes". Sawari's sole plea to Turnbull is to muster enough empathy and imagination to walk in his shoes, and those of the others on Manus and Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Kyaw", for example, is a Rohingya who is too fearful to have his real name published. Like many in the transit centre, he spends most of his time in his room: afraid, damaged and vulnerable. If he was born in another country, he might be at university now, on his way to gaining a PhD.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Like many of the others, Kyaw remains traumatised by what he saw in the country he calls Burma, what he endured while fleeing, and what he witnessed the night Reza Barati was killed in February last year, when locals joined PNG security and others in breaking into the detention centre and attacking detainees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One young man in his early 20s is still so frightened he wedges a table across his bedroom door each night. "I am scared, day and night," he says. "We are moving like dead bodies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We don't remember anything."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Kyaw says he would rather be back in the detention centre, where the refugees can line up, show their blue "mental help" card, and receive their nightly sleeping tablet.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the transit centre support is limited and the refugees must pay for everything beyond the basics from the 100 kina ($50) allowance they receive each Monday, including their medications.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is a push for some of the refugees to be offered jobs in the town, provided they are not paid and return to the centre by 6pm. The local mayor, Ruth Mandrakamu, is keen to involve the refugees in local activities and looking at offering two positions. But the refugees are deeply suspicious and believe the PNG government is simply trying to demonstrate that something is happening.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even without the 6pm curfew that is not strictly enforced, the refugees fear going out at night, when they are easy targets for those locals who turn nasty when they have been drinking.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It isn't that Manus is normally a violent place. These are a friendly and peace-loving people. But since the detention centre reopened, it has become one. "When the <b>asylum</b> seeker project was brought in, a lot of youths and a lot of people get employment and when they have money in their pockets, they use it unwisely," says provincial police commander Alex N'Drasal. "Most of that money is used on alcohol, whether legal or home brew, or used on drugs, and that is when they get involved in all kinds of social issues that speed up the rate of crimes in the province so high."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So concerned is the island's governor, Charlie Benjamin, about the rising crime rate that he recently rang the country's prime minister, Peter O'Neill, and asked for members of the country's riot squad to be sent to help restore order.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Benjamin is a supporter of the detention centre, on the grounds that it will deliver important infrastructure and employment to Manus, but he remains disappointed with what has so far been delivered and opposes refugees settling on the island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We only happy to process them in here, but we're not happy to resettle them in Manus," he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The island's member of the PNG Parliament, Ronny Knight, agrees. "How are we going to resettle them?" he asks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Ninety-nine per cent of our people live by subsistence farming and by fishing. Whose seas are they going to go fishing in? Where are they going to go farming?"</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If the upside of the detention centre was the promise of economic development, the downside has been that locals do not receive the same pay as fly-in, fly-out foreigners who do the same jobs; that local contractors have not shared in the work; that the promised "Manus package" has so far failed to materialise; and that food prices have increased.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Although there have been no complaints to authorities so far, there is also deep apprehension about the prospects of integrating scores, and maybe even hundreds, of single men, many of them damaged by their experiences in their own countries and in detention, who come from a different culture and a different religion.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The police commissioner says young refugees forming relationships with local women is prohibited. "They shouldn't be going around with ladies or consuming alcohol or going around with youth and consuming drugs," he says. "Of course it is illegal."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Another frustration for local politicians and law officers is that they do not know what is happening inside the detention centre. "If I want to go there I would ask permission like everybody else," the governor says. "If they allowed me to go then I will go, but if they not allow me to go then I will not go. It's like a country in a country, that's how I see it."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The relocation of refugees to the East Lorengau centre was supposed to be evidence that PNG was moving to resettle them, but it was revealed as a cruel hoax when Reza Mollagholipour applied for a job as a civil engineer in Port Moresby and was invited to meet his prospective employer to discuss his salary.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The passport he was given allowed for travel within PNG, but he received a letter late in March, just as he was due to fly out of Manus, from the country's chief migration officer, Mataio Rabura, telling him he had no right to leave. "In essence, there is currently no government-sanctioned arrangement in place for your integration and settlement into PNG," the letter said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The idea of coming to Australia died in my mind when I was on Christmas Island and they told me you will never go there," Mollagholipour says. "That is why I planned to apply to every company and work in Port Moresby. I was happy because I thought I could again start my life. What makes me really crazy is that they are calling this a process without doing anything."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mollagholipour now spends most of his time in his room, studying physics and improving his English. He says he is "fine" because he is older than most of the others and more resilient, having worked as a fly-in fly-out civil engineer on big projects in Iran for a decade. "My feeling is very different from the others. The majority are young, they are thinking about their families, they cannot understand anything about their future. When I was young as Loghman, I could not have tolerated his situation, really. He is very strong."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One advantage Sawari and the others in the transit centre have over the 900 <b>asylum</b> seekers still in detention is that they have a voice. During my stay on Manus, I attempted to speak with a group of detainees who were allowed out on an "excursion" to a secluded harbour near the airport.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I approached once they were out of the mini-bus and shook the hands of an Iranian and a Sudanese before a stocky guard with the empathy of a robot delivered an ultimatum. "Talk to him and the excursion over," he barked. "Your choice!" I retreated.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sawari still suffers depression, but retains the capacity to hope for a happy ending. "Everyday I pray, 'Please God, not only help me, help everyone'," he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Others, like a young Rohingya who is a new arrival at the transit centre after 25 months in detention, are so utterly consumed by pessimism and despair that hope is beyond them. "Better, after my <b>boat</b> broken, that we die in the ocean," he says. "Then finish. Better than this."</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Tackle the detention disgrace, Mr Turnbull</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>644 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>26 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>32</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Were there an evidently optimal response to <b>asylum</b> seekers, it would have long been deployed. There is a spectrum of strategies to deal with the plight of displaced people, the overwhelming majority of whom are fleeing war, terrorism and persecution. This is the situation of the 60 million people currently displaced in the world, the highest number ever.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At one end of the spectrum is an open-border policy, something nobody would seriously advocate. At the other is closing the doors to anyone who does not arrive via an official queue. That is essentially what Australia has done. While it has stopped some people risking their lives at sea, it continues to involve shameful disregard for the nation's legal and moral duties, and at a scandalous waste of taxpayers' money. It involves expensive offshore mandatory detention centres - in effect prison camps. By thus outsourcing its responsibilities, our government is denying <b>asylum</b> seekers the realistic prospect of building a decent life.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Age has long deplored the centres on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island and on Nauru, and we continue to argue they should be closed. We believe a better, more humane and cost-effective response to the needs of desperate, vulnerable people is to increase our funding of the United Nations Human Rights Commissioner for Refugees, the body that organises global resettlement efforts, and take a more robust role in seeking coordinated processing of <b>asylum</b> seekers in our region. It is ridiculous to argue, as successive Australian governments have, that people are "queue jumpers" when no queue has been set up. It is also ridiculous to claim, as successive governments have, that people who arrive other than via official offshore processing are illegal immigrants. It is not illegal to arrive in Australia without official documents and then to seek <b>asylum</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">New Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has said, in recent days, that he is "concerned" about the situation of those in forced detention on Manus Island and Nauru and that "our policies will change". Within hours, though, he seemed to close the door by strongly re-affirming the existing policy, that people in those centres will never be allowed to settle in Australia. Sadly then, we do not expect that the use of these dreadful places will alter any time soon, despite the cost of keeping an <b>asylum</b> seeker in offshore detention being close to 10 times more than processing them in the community here. Remember, as many as nine-in-10 <b>asylum</b> seekers who arrive by <b>boat</b> are found to be genuine refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What Mr Turnbull and his fresh government can do immediately, though, is improve the conditions, about which he is rightly concerned, on Manus Island and Nauru. As Michael Gordon's coverage in The Age today shows, those conditions are indeed deplorable. They reflect appallingly on Australia, a nation that prides itself on being fair and rational.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Any doubt about the humanitarian disgrace occurring in our name should be dispelled by figures from the very company receiving 60 million taxpayer dollars a month to run these places, and which has just had its multibillion-dollar contract renewed. That company is <span class="companylink">Transfield Services</span>. By its own admission, there is an incident of self-harm on average every four days and a sexual assault every four months. These figures cover 972 days, hardly a snapshot. The evidence is not from whistleblowers or activists, but from the responsible entity.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Such serial and cruel mismanagement must not be allowed to continue. If Mr Turnbull is genuinely concerned, he should make the company honour its contract appropriately, on threat of losing it. While <span class="companylink">Transfield Services</span> seems to care little for these people, it certainly cares about profit, and the prospect of losing such a lucrative contract might succeed where good conscience has failed.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>649 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>26 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hazara <b>refugee</b> Hussain Ramzani is keenly aware Australia has a new Prime Minister.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I'm just waiting for news that one <b>boat</b> will arrive in Australia and there is a chance the <b>asylum</b> seekers would be taken in. Then I would not sit here," he says through an interpreter.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Several months ago an agent - as people smugglers are known in Indonesia - told Mr Ramzani that Tony Abbott had only one year left in power "so you have to get ready".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Then Australia's leadership changed and people smugglers were spruiking this as a chance to test the waters.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has ruled out a change to the Coalition's offshore processing policy despite concern about the condition of detention centres on Manus Island and Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, Bangladeshi man Mochamad Jahangir Husain, aboard a people-smuggling <b>boat</b> that attempted to reach Christmas Island this week, said they were given hope by Australia's decision to resettle 12,000 refugees from Syria and the nation having a new leader.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Of course the agents are preparing," Mr Ramzani says. "I believe they will send only a few people in the first <b>boat</b>, maybe about 20 people. They would absolutely charge them less for the first <b>boat</b>."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Like many refugees in Indonesia, Mr Ramzani has already been waiting for two years for the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> to find a third country to accept him.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"They gave me a paper saying I would be resettled in a third country within six months," says the former businessman from Quetta in Pakistan. "For the last two years they haven't even called me."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We are in a rancid-smelling room in Hotel Kenanga, a hostel in Cisarua where <b>asylum</b> seekers, mostly from Pakistan, live cheek-by-jowl. Most have attempted to get to Australia by <b>boat</b> multiple times. It has always gone badly. Many journeys ended before they began, the <b>asylum</b> seekers arrested by Indonesian authorities. Others' boats capsized. They were rescued by the Australian Navy and then pushed back to Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some <b>asylum</b> seekers have heard that Mr Turnbull is less of a "hardliner".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Tony Abbott's <b>asylum</b> seeker treatment was very harsh. We are hopeful that (Malcolm Turnbull) will have a soft heart for us," says Sajjed Ali, a 21-year-old from Parachinar, Pakistan, next to Afghanistan. He shows us his legs which he says were injured in a bomb blast. "My house was hit by a <span class="companylink">Taliban</span> rocket. We are just appealing to the new Prime Minister to announce something for us. If they take us in legally nobody would risk their lives to go by <b>boat</b>."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Former Immigration Minister Scott Morrison announced last November that <b>asylum</b> seekers who registered with the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> in Indonesia after July 1, 2014, would no longer be eligible for resettlement in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Several <b>asylum</b> seekers express a sense of injustice that Australia is resettling 12,000 Syrian refugees when the Hazaras in Afghanistan and Pakistan have also been persecuted and killed by the <span class="companylink">Taliban</span> for years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I think if they take 12,000 Syrian refugees there will be no future for the refugees stranded in Indonesia," says Muhammad Taqi, a truck driver from Afghanistan who lives in another room in Hotel Kenanga. "They are equally deserving people."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Taqi's father-in-law is a building contractor in Melbourne.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"He said Turnbull is a good man but I don't know in what way," says Nasima Nadri. The couple may have heard that Mr Turnbull "is not a hardliner", but there is no way they are risking a <b>boat</b> to Australia. Fazil Agha, a 20-year-old from Logar in Afghanistan, is not getting on a <b>boat</b> either.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I'm sick and tired of this place [but] my heart says this route is not going to open again."</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hope may not spring eternal from the proverbial pens of Herald letter writers but it is certainly flowing for the time being.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Less than a fortnight after Malcolm Turnbull's rise to power, the prospect of a fresh set of climate and <b>asylum</b> polices has certainly inspired optimism among many of the more critical writers.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Not that all are happy with this generally jolly tone.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The wit in the Herald's letters pages," complained John Grinter, of Katoomba, "seems far less acerbic since Malcolm took over. We have to keep the blighters on their toes or Lord knows what they'll try and foist on us."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To be fair, John, even this ever-vigilant community of scribes should be allowed a period of grace before they take the new cabinet to task.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The question of how long they will give Turnbull and his ministers to right the nation's wrongs remains to be seen.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mark Futeran, of Bowral, was already shows withdrawal symptoms on the lack of progress announcements, which were common as recently as last month. "It's been a bit over a week and there has been no news," he wrote. "Are the boats (still) stopped? Is the carbon tax (still) gone? The lack of information on this front is very worrying."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Meanwhile, Katherine Cummings, of Tascott, seems to think a new messiah has been sworn in, suggesting Turnbull could walk rather than row a <b>boat</b> across the water from his private residence at Point Piper to the official one at Kirribilli.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We hope Ms Cummings won't be too disappointed if her new leader opts against the risk of drowning.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Catharine Munro</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Acting letters co-editor</p>
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Unions are on the government’s nose, the notorious CFMEU in particular. Yet its boss, Michael O’Connor, is one of the most effective behind-the-scenes operators in Canberra, striking deals with minorities to secure outcomes for his members. He has plenty of sworn enemies but also some surprising supporters – on both sides of the political fence.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Michael O’Connor makes high-octane enemies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Paul Keating dubbed him a “Labor rat”. Mark Latham once sneered that O’Connor and his forestry division mates could not “fart unless the bosses say it’s OK”, while Eric Abetz, the Abbott government’s Senate leader, claimed in July that O’Connor runs a “corrupt” organisation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But O’Connor, national secretary of Australia’s most notorious union, the <span class="companylink">Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union</span> , has also acquired unlikely admirers over his three decades in the labour movement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I suppose I’d see him as a friend,” says Kate Carnell, chief executive of business lobby group the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and a former Liberal Party politician. “It doesn’t mean we don’t have some ding-dong arguments from time to time but he’s a decent bloke. He’s straight as a die. He’s in that job to support his members.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Wilhelm Harnisch , who as chief executive of <span class="companylink">Master Builders Australia</span> clashes routinely with the CFMEU, acknowledges O’Connor as politically astute. “The fact that he’s very considered and he argues on the facts gives him credibility, and I think they would be skills that would give cause for others to respect him,” Harnisch says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nick Xenophon, the independent senator who supports curbing the CFMEU’s unlawful conduct, says O’Connor defies the bovver boy reputation of those he represents. “His demeanour and approach is in contrast with the image and the publicity around the CFMEU,” Xenophon says. “I find him passionate and enthusiastic about public policy.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">O’Connor, one-time partner of Julia Gillard and brother of ALP frontbencher Brendan O’Connor , wields significant influence in both the union movement and the Labor Party. Given the ALP is in opposition, and the government is hostile to the CFMEU, he and his union might appear to have limited influence. But through O’Connor’s relationships in the ALP and with not only other unions but also the Senate crossbenchers and the Greens, he has been effective at stimying change that his members don’t agree with and driving home policies they support.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“He understands where power lies more than most,” says one senior federal Labor MP. Adds another: “He’s politically very astute. He does have his detractors in the labour movement but they are largely union leaders who are beginning to resent his influence.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Not that O’Connor, 56, likes to talk publicly about himself. He refused repeated requests to be interviewed for this piece, insisting he did not want to co-operate for a profile that would assess his industrial and political power. No matter; his impact – and that of the CFMEU – on the policy positions of the ALP and the <span class="companylink">ACTU</span> in 2015 have been readily apparent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the ALP national conference in July , O’Connor’s left-wing union threw its numbers behind Bill Shorten on <b>boat</b> turn-backs, helping the Labor leader move closer to the Coalition on the critical issue of <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">O’Connor was also at the forefront of the union movement’s campaign to get ALP support to try to rewrite key elements of the China free-trade agreement . He achieved this objective, with the conference committing Labor to pushing the union’s goal of greater safeguards to protect Australian jobs, both while in opposition but also if it gets back into power.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">O’Connor’s lobbying of Senate crossbenchers has been integral to unions frustrating signature elements of the government’s workplace relations policy agenda. A notable success was the Senate’s refusal to pass the Coalition’s bill to reinstate the national construction watchdog, the Australian Building and Construction Commission . Defeat of the bill in August was a remarkable achievement given the damaging evidence against the CFMEU in the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption; the ongoing adverse court rulings in relation to the conduct of CFMEU officials; the aggressive tactics of <span class="companylink">Fair Work Building and Construction</span> director Nigel Hadgkissin pursuing legal action against the union and its officials; and the almost daily attacks on the union by Abbott and his cabinet ministers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As a result of the royal commission’s work, a number of senior CFMEU officials are under police investigation. The national president of the union’s construction division, David Hanna , has resigned. Four arrests have been made, including a former organiser, Halafi hi Kivalu , who has been charged with blackmail. The union has spent more than $2 million in members’ funds on lawyers to defend its conduct.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">O’Connor runs an organisation that employs officials who have been subject to numerous penalties and critical legal judgments for engaging in unlawful conduct. Police in three states are investigating senior leaders of the CFMEU for allegations ranging from receiving secret commissions to blackmail as a result of evidence gathered by investigators working alongside the royal commission. While O’Connor is described as a cleanskin by his supporters, his critics say these events have occurred on his watch.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“As national secretary of the CFMEU, Mr O’Connor needs to take full responsibility for the activities of the union,” says Abetz. “He is running an unseemly tag team with his brother Brendan O’’Connor, the sole purpose of which seems to be to protect the indefensible and often illegal activities of the CFMEU.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">During the discussion by t he AFR Magazine ’s 2015 power panel, one-time Labor resources minister and past ACTU president Martin Fergusonsaid he would rank O’Connor ahead of ACTU secretary Dave Oliver when it came to the power of individual unionists. Ferguson, a long-time factional ally of O’Connor’s, says O’Connor has always worked with both major political parties and the minor parties.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Greg Combet, a former Labor cabinet minister and past ACTU secretary , told the panel the unionists with the most power today are O’Connor, Oliver and ACTU president Ged Kearney . He pointed in particular to O’Connor’s handling of the CFMEU since the establishment of the royal commission in March 2014. He attributed O’Connor with holding the union together during this difficult time and with having close ties with the business community.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In pursuing his strategy, O’Connor has had to consider the objectives of his brother Brendan, a former cabinet minister and Shorten’s current workplace relations spokesman .</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Colleagues say the brothers are mindful of the obvious conflict of interest but watch each other’s backs as they negotiate their way through the often treacherous world of labour movement politics, and the competing interests of the party’s political and industrial wings.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Born in London, the brothers came to Australia by ship with their Irish-born parents, Michael and Philomena, and their sister, Siobian, arriving in Melbourne in 1968. The oldest of four children (the youngest, Brian, was born here), Michael was nine when they settled, initially in a migrant hostel before moving to a flat in the outer suburb of Springvale.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His parents were factory workers, his father at a car component maker and his mother for engineering and electronics manufacturer Bosch . They were union members with strong Labor values. Money was tight but the children had a stable and secure upbringing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">O’Connor moved between three secondary schools, including those run by the <span class="companylink">Christian Brothers</span>. As a teenager, he was politically active. At 15, he handed out pamphlets for the ALP at the 1974 federal election. At <span class="companylink">Monash University</span> , studying arts, he became immersed in student politics. It was while working for the Australian Union of Students in the inner Melbourne suburb of Carlton that he got involved with Gillard, a fellow AUS officer.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“One of my first big relationships was with Michael O’Connor,” she told the ABC’s Australian Story in 2004.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">O’Connor and Martin Ferguson were later important to Gillard overcoming attempts by figures from the ALP Left to frustrate her path into federal politics. In her maiden speech to <span class="companylink">Parliament</span> in 1998 , Gillard, when paying tribute to “comrades” from her university days, singled out O’Connor as the most committed of them all , a man “who has been my closest confidant since those heady days” .</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">O’Connor’s relationship with Gillard was regularly raised by right-wing columnists as a means to attack her after she toppled Kevin Rudd as prime minister. It is understood O’Connor, who has three adult sons with his wife Marianne, a nurse, later expressed regret to friends about speaking about Gillard to Australian Story . “Most married blokes avoid talking about their ex-girlfriends,” one says. “How would feel if your ex was the prime minister and she was on your TV every night for three years?” O’Connor worked a range of jobs before commencing his union career in 1985with the Operative Painters and Decorators Union . He went on to become an organiser for the Federated Furnishing Trade Society , ascending to South Australian secretary before being appointed a national organiser in 1992 .</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He moved up the ranks of the CFMEU’s forest and furnishing products division and was elected its national secretary in 2005.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He became the union’s national secretary in 2011 .</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was as one of the organisers of the loggers’ blockade of Parliament House in 1995that he shot to national prominence, earning the ire of Keating. An estimated 4000 timber workers protested Labor’s decision to impose limitations on logging.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Paul didn’t think much of that,” says former ACTU secretary, Bill Kelty . “Paul was very upset about it.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Carnell, a former executive director of the <span class="companylink">National Association of Forest Industries</span> , says O’Connor showed that he was prepared to put the interests of his members ahead of the Labor Party. “He was doing it because of what the government of the day was doing to his members,” she says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“You have got to admire that sort of balls, shall we say.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nine years later, O’Connor again earned the wrath of the ALP when he backed John Howard in the 2004election campaign after Mark Latham wanted to lock up native forests. “He did his best to convince Latham and the Labor Party that sacrificing timber jobs for Green preferences was not a reasonable thing to do,” Carnell says. “He tried hard to do that but he failed, so he decided he was willing to support the John Howard approach, which was in the best interests of his members.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">O’Connor was more succinct in 2012, telling Crikey: “Before the 2004 election, the ALP stood us up and we put ’em on their arse. If we’d been more united, maybe the ALP wouldn’t have taken us on.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Kelty, who has known O’Connor for more than 20 years, rates his abilities highly. “He has all the attributes of one of the best union officials,” he says. “He’s honest, he’s determined, he’s passionate, he’s prepared to learn, he works hard.” Kelty says O’Connor understands the timber industry, its employers and its politics. He wasn’t surprised that O’Connor rose to the top of the union, saying he had an innate ability to carefully balance the interests of the environment and the industry. “He can negotiate but he’s not a bully negotiator; he’s careful but very strong,” Kelty says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Adam Bandt , the Greens industrial relations spokesman , says O’Connor “understands there is no point in trying to bullshit parliamentarians”. Bandt says that in contrast to other ALP-affiliated unions, O’Connor treats the minor party with respect, providing “information that we request to help us come to positions”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Xenophon recalls how O’Connor spoke with almost incandescent enthusiasm when discussing the need to value-add Australia’s timber production. “I think, in terms of Michael, whatever others in the CFMEU have been hit with, he hasn’t been tainted with those allegations of corruption and bad behaviour. He’s defended his union. I think he’s a cleanskin in the sense that he hasn’t been tainted by other disputes.’’ But the Master Builders’ Harnisch says O’Connor has failed to take action to address the unlawful conduct of his officials. “Michael heads up a union with a rogue division, the construction division,’’ he says. “To date, he has shown no appetite for dealing with the indisputable and wide-ranging unlawful behaviours demonstrated by many costly court fines and damning evidence in the royal commission.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Michael has been ineffective in dealing with these matters except to defend the indefensible.’’ Given the negative evidence emerging from the royal commission about the CFMEU’s conduct, Carnell says the ability of O’Connor and his union to convince the Senate crossbenchers to thwart the passage of the Australian Building and Construction Commission bill was a pretty impressive piece of advocacy. It was also helped by O’Connor’s common interest with Ricky Muir , the crossbencher who worked in a Victorian sawmill for five years . O’Connor was present in the Senate for Muir’s maiden speech and the union presented him with a framed copy of a speech by John Curtin, former Labor prime minister and one-time secretary of the Victorian Timber Workers Union .</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dave Noonan , the national secretary of the CFMEU’s construction division , says there are “probably other union leaders who spend more time at <span class="companylink">Parliament</span> than Michael, but I think the time he spends there, he’s more effective than lots of industry groups”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I don’t think all the crazy talk about ultra-militancy is true,” Noonan says. “Because we have been in a position where we have been a reasonably effective union, the government has targeted us. They have somewhat of an obsession and Michael has been effective as the leader of the union in articulating the fact that there is more to the union’s industrial and political agenda than the slightly hysterical frenzied stuff that you hear from extremists like Eric Abetz.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Police are proceding their investigations into various CFMEU officials, and the royal commission’s final report, due before Christmas, will be used by the government to unleash a pre-election assault on the union, including possible deregistration.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">O’Connor will have to rely on his power relationships in and outside of Parliament House to combat it. As he has said privately when questioned about any ambitions to enter parliament: “I am in politics.’’</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some respect O’Connor...</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Kate Carnell</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Kelty</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Julia Gillard</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dave Noonan</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nick Xenophon</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Brendan O’Connor</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">...others do not.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Paul Keating</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Eric Abetz</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mark Latham</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PEOPLE-smugglers in Indonesia are trying to acquire large sea-ready vessels to transport <b>asylum</b>-seekers to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A reliable intelligence source from Java told The Courier-Mail that <b>boat</b> owners were being approached by agents on behalf of smugglers.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Legitimate fishing fleet owners in Sukabumi, near the south coast of West Java, told local intelligence officers that smugglers’ representatives were offering “big US dollars” for large boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">No figures were specified.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A senior Australian intelligence source told The Courier-Mail they had also heard “chatter” in regard to smugglers trying to source boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It now appears certain the smugglers are assessing the mettle of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who said he would maintain the policy of the two previous prime ministers that anyone who arrives by <b>boat</b> will never settle in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I think they (are) testing,” said an Iranian <b>asylum</b>-seeker in Jakarta, who earlier in the week said smugglers had been monitoring Canberra politics and months ago began trying to pre-sell <b>boat</b> passage upon a likely change of leadership.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“If Australia accepts boats, they continue (coming).” Immigration Minister Peter Dutton also recently flagged that smugglers would try to take advantage of political change in Australia by convincing desperate <b>asylum</b>-seekers that they would be received with open arms.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“They will try and (get the) message out, in relation to the Prime Minister (Mr Turnbull) coming into his job, to us being very generous in terms of taking 12,000 refugees from Syria,” he told Sky News.The Courier-Mail yesterday revealed that a <b>boat</b> with more than 20 passengers and three crew bound for Australia had become stranded with engine failure after departing from ­Cidaun, in the same general area as Sukabumi, on Tuesday morning.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gcat : Political/General News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | indon : Indonesia | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | devgcoz : Emerging Market Countries | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | seasiaz : Southeast Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document COUMAI0020150925eb9p00002</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020150924eb9p0008f" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TheNation</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Ad blitz to reject smuggler message</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>EXCLUSIVE: PETER ALFORD, SARAH MARTIN, ADDITIONAL REPORTING: GITA ATHIKA   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>820 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>25 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Turnbull government has rapidly moved to counter claims in Indonesia that Australia is now “receiving refugees”, launch­ing advertising that warns people-smugglers and <b>asylum</b>-seekers there has not been any softening of the country’s ­border-protection policies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Following a foiled people-smuggling attempt from Indonesia to Australia on Wed­nesday, The Australian has confirmed some agents are using last week’s leadership change and the Abbott cabinet decision to accept 12,000 refugees displaced by the Syrian conflict as a sales pitch to <b>asylum</b>-seekers.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One of the men on the <b>boat</b> journey to Christmas Island that failed while still in West Java coastal waters said yesterday he was ­approached by an Indonesian agent a week ago.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“He said ‘There is a new government in Australia and they are receiving refugees’,” Bangladeshi Muhammad Jahan Gir Hussain said from Sukha­bumi, where he and 17 other <b>asylum</b>-seekers are being held for questioning and assessment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As sources claimed more boats could be dispatched “in the coming weeks”, a senior West Java policeman last night also voiced concern the <b>asylum</b>-­seeker boats were starting again.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Cianjur regency police chief Asep Guntur Rahayu, whose beat is one of the former people-smuggling hot spots in Java, said: “There has been a quiet time when I thought it had stopped, no more boats, maybe because of the (Australian) turnback policy. We are ready if there are more.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“But with the new government in Australia, we are thinking there might be another <b>boat</b>, and another.” In an attempt to counter the new messaging from people-smugglers, the government is rolling out a campaign that advises would-be <b>asylum</b>-seekers not to mistake its new <b>refugee</b> policy with any softening of its border control measures.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said last night the government would reassert its message that people who tried to come by <b>boat</b> would not be ­settled in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I want people thinking of getting on a <b>boat</b> to hear a clear message: we have not changed our position; we will not change our position,” Mr Dutton told The Australian.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We’re not going to be dictated to by organised criminals who are people-smugglers. People-smugglers in Indonesia and Sri Lanka and elsewhere should understand the Australian government is resolute — ­illegal boats will not reach ­Australia. We’ve turned boats back before, and won’t hesitate to do so again.” The new campaign, co-ordinated by the <span class="companylink">International Organisation for Migration</span>, has been launched in Indonesia. It is mainly funded by the Australian government and has in the past fortnight altered its messaging to emphasise that the risk in boarding boats remains unchanged. Campaign material is also used in brochures, and in mainstream media on the ground in source countries.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is understood a refreshed message will soon be distributed advising that the change in Australia’s prime minister has not had any effect on the country’s border policies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a “Communication Against Smuggling” published in several languages, including Indonesian, on the Immigration Department’s website, a warning says: “Operation Sovereign Borders has not been changed or softened. The Australian government’s announcement recently about the resettlement of the refugees who fled the conflict in Syria and Iraq will have no effect on the policy of Australia in stopping people who are trying to travel illegally by <b>boat</b> to Australia,” the message says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Australia will only resettle refugees registered with the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> and who are now in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey.” A government spokesman said the Immigration Department constantly refreshed its messages because any change in Australia could be used by people-smugglers to “actively try to take advantage of people and mislead them”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The spokesman said this was done to “counter these lies and reinforce our policy settings”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One man who spoke to The Australian yesterday said several people-smuggling agents in the Jakarta-Cisarua area and former network principals were trying to organise boats. He had previously attempted to come to Australia by <b>boat</b>, but his journey was aborted in the Indian Ocean.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I think they are trying to test the Australian leadership … they think (Malcolm) Turnbull might be softer,” the man said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He is in close touch with the community of Afghan and Pakistani Hazaras now stranded around Jakarta and Cisarua, 60km to the south.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The source said yesterday agents had been actively approaching <b>asylum</b>-seekers in recent days: “There might be several boats in the coming weeks, if not days.” Some of the organisers were reaching out from prison, where they are serving terms for people-smuggling and associated offences, and were experienced operators from the 2008-13 period.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Hussain said he was approached by an agent calling himself Ali last week in Cisarua.“I did not know anything about the government in Australia but Ali did.”</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gpol : Domestic Politics | npag : Page-One Stories | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations | ncat : Content Types</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | indon : Indonesia | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | devgcoz : Emerging Market Countries | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | seasiaz : Southeast Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020150924eb9p0008f</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-MRCURY0020150924eb9p00047" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>No change on borders</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>79 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>25 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Hobart Mercury</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>MRCURY</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Hobart</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>17</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">IMMIGRATION Minister Peter Dutton says Australia will keep its hardline border protection approach under Malcolm Turnbull as people smugglers try to test the ­resolve of the new administration.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A group of <b>asylum</b> seekers, including children, were understood to have been ­detained on Wednesday in southern Java after an unsuccessful attempt to journey by <b>boat</b> to Australia.Mr Dutton said the Government, despite a change in leader, would not be dictated to by “organised criminals”.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gcat : Political/General News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document MRCURY0020150924eb9p00047</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-ADVTSR0020150924eb9p0003t" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Buy up the boats</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>124 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>25 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>22</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PEOPLE smugglers in Indo-nesia are trying to acquire big sea-ready vessels to transport <b>asylum</b> seekers to Australia, sources say.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A consistently reliable intelligence source from Java told The Advertiser <b>boat</b> owners were being approached by agents on behalf of smugglers.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fishing fleet owners in Sukabumi have told local intelligence officers that smugglers’ representatives are offering “big US dollars” for large boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A senior Australian intelligence source said they too had been hearing “chatter” in regard to smugglers trying to obtain boats. He said he was aware there were often scams to fleece money from <b>asylum</b>-seekers, and that no <b>boat</b> would ever turn up.But this time he believed there was a genuine attempt to buy boats.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gcat : Political/General News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document ADVTSR0020150924eb9p0003t</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020150924eb9p0004x" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Commentary</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Stand firm on border control</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>593 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>25 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Malcolm Turnbull has learned an important lesson</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Malcolm Turnbull has had his first wobble — quickly righted — on border protection. On Wednesday he gave the impression that offshore detention policy might be softened. People-smugglers are alert to any signal that can be construed as a weakening of our will. Coalition policy stopped the boats and restored public confidence in our immigration system in part by sending a crystal-clear message that <b>asylum</b>-seekers brought in by people-smugglers had no hope of ever being resettled in Australia. If illegal arrivals cannot get what they have paid for, the business of people-smuggling falters.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Asked by Sky News’ David Speers about <b>asylum</b>-seekers being “stuck” in offshore detention, Mr Turnbull said: “I have the same concerns about the situation of people on Manus and Nauru as you do … Our policies will change, all policies change, but when we do make changes we will do so in a considered way … This is an area that clearly is one that is controversial, one that is challenging, and it is certainly one that close attention is being paid to.” Such comments, made after a moderate prime minister has replaced a conservative, could make it easier for people-smugglers to begin recruiting for a test of will with a new government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull realised this and so, later in the day, he switched to Abbott-era hardline rhetoric. “We cannot take a backward step on this issue,” he told ABC radio on Wednesday night. “People who come via the people­-smuggling route will never settle in Australia: that is the one message that has to be absolutely crystal clear. They will never settle in Australia, it is only by being utterly­ unequivocal on this matter that we have been able to stop the boats, and that has saved hundreds of lives.” Labor’s record between 2007 and 2013 proves the truth of this. The government gave up on border control and outsourced our immigration system to people-smugglers and clients with the money to pay the fare. Across six years, there were 51,000 illegal arrivals and 1200 deaths by drowning. Of course, humane conditions must prevail on Nauru and Manus Island and resettlement elsewhere than in Australia should be encouraged. But this can — and must — be done in a way that preserves offshore detention as an effective deterrent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yesterday we reported what seems to be the first case, on Mr Turnbull’s watch, of a <b>boat</b> embarking on the hazardous journey from Java to Christmas Island; it was foiled by Indonesian authorities. On Monday, we reported the belief of intelligence agencies that people-smugglers were readying for similar attempts to test the resolve of Mr Turnbull and his government. The Prime Minister says it’s not necessary for Immigration Minister Peter Dutton, a hardliner, to retain his permanent seat on the national security committee of cabinet; his “visitor” status must be monitored to ensure it is effective.Much is at stake. As the former Labor Left MP Peter Baldwin argued in this newspaper yesterday, the Abbott government’s reassertion of control over our borders enabled it to agree to take 12,000 extra Syrian refugees. This being an orderly intake, the government can be held accountable for carrying out proper security checks. By contrast, as Mr Baldwin points out, Europe’s open borders face an uncontrolled influx including not only refugees in need but also, in all probability, “self-selected” Muslim extremists. Open societies must be vigilant to preserve their freedoms.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>CULTURAL</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Story ANNE HYLAND   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4926 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>25 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian Financial Review</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AFNR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>38</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2015. Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE POWER ISSUE 2015</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dark, uncomfortable issues have dominated Australia’s cultural debate over the past 12 months, from child abuse and domestic violence to racism and terrorism.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australian culture is at a crossroads. In the past, religious institutions and top political players were meaningful contributors to our national cultural identity.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But today they are less and less relevant. Why? Because they’ve failed to show the one thing Australia really needs: strong leadership and a clearly articulated view of who we are.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Filling the gap are the individuals, institutions and ideas that are helping us navigate a series of complex and troubling questions. Are we a racist nation?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Are we a fearful nation? Are we a progressive nation? Are our politicians mapping out a future direction for the country or simply engaging in banal and inane debate?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It’s a period of truth-seeking. Australia is a nation in flux, which is reflected in the compilation by our power panel of the cultural list for 2015.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the top spot is the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, chaired by Justice Peter McClellan. Its influence over the past year has been to bring into the mainstream debate a topic that was once taboo. More than 4000 victims of child sexual abuse have come forward to tell their stories in private sessions at the commission. The public hearings have examined the systemic failure of institutions such as private schools, religious groups and state-run childcare facilities to protect children.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some of those institutions perpetrated and covered up abhorrent child sexual abuse. The commission is now holding them to account and they are voluntarily or forcibly changing. The incredible scale of the commission’s hearings nationwide, together with the horrific content, has made it part of the national conversation. Abuse stories fill nightly radio and news bulletins.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I don’t think it was widely understood how extreme the abuse has been and how it’s been covered up for decades,” says Greg Combet, a former federal Labor minister and leader of the <span class="companylink">Australian Council of Trade Unions</span>. “You cannot overstate the commission’s importance for people who have been victims as children of sexual abuse. For that reason alone, given the scope of this problem over so many decades and affecting so many people, it’s extremely important.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Beyond that, it’s a cathartic experience for Australian society generally. It’s very important for Australia to confront its past.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Amanda Vanstone, former federal Liberal senator and minister for immigration, says it is the role of a royal commission to shine a light in dark places. “If they do that effectively, they do change the cultural landscape. We see things we wouldn’t otherwise see and we react to them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That’s a good thing.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are two other royal commissions under way in Australia with the power to effect cultural change. One is the federal commission focused on trade union governance and corruption, which became engulfed in turmoil after the impartiality of its commissioner, Justice Dyson Heydon , was called into question. Even so, former Labor minister Martin Ferguson says this commission remains very important for reforming the trade union movement and the Labor Party.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The other is Victoria’s Royal Commission into Family Violence . It wouldn’t have occurred if not for the powerful voice of Rosie Batty . Sixth on last year’s cultural list, Batty moves into second place this year due to her relentless campaigning against family violence.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Batty’s advocacy was born of personal tragedy. In 2014,her 11-year-old son Luke was murdered by his father, beaten with a cricket bat and stabbed repeatedly during cricket practice. From the day after Luke was killed, Batty was articulate and forceful in asking Australians to talk about the entrenched issue of family violence.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australians are asked to be concerned about many causes, from climate change to motor neurone disease – remember the ice bucket challenge? This makes Batty’s achievement in highlighting her cause all the more significant and points to her communication skills.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It’s a real communication game and she has been successful,” says qualitative researcher Tony Mitchelmore, managing director of Visibility Consulting. “She’s a commanding influence with other people of influence. She’s making a difference and changing attitudes.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Batty’s efforts earned her the 2015 Australian of the Year award. Martin Parkinson, former federal Treasury secretary, says it’s not often that a groundswell of support emerges around an individual or issue, as it did around Batty. “It says something about her and the obvious sense here is a person you can admire and respect, and who is brave.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In changing attitudes and policies, Batty and the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse are redefining who we are as a nation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The themes of violence and abuse are echoed in the threat of terrorism and ISIS, which our panel judged the third most powerful cultural phenomenon of the past year. Our collective anxiety grew last year when we saw images of a young Australian boy holding a decapitated head in Syria.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The boy is the son of an Australian man who fled to join ISIS. They were stoked further during the Lindt Café siege in Sydney’s CBD last December, in which 17 people were taken hostage and three died, including Man Haron Monis , who perpetrated the terror.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mitchelmore says while it’s wrong to portray Monis as an ISIS person, this is initially what Australians and the world thought he was. “That’s the fear the siege evoked. That was the terrifying part about it.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Those two key events lifted the level of anxiety in Australian society. Adding to it has been the political messaging around the threat of terrorism. Unlike former prime minister John Howard, who advised Australians to be alert but not alarmed, Prime Minister Tony Abbott has called ISIS a death cult and told citizens that it is “coming after us”. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has described it as a bigger threat to the world order than Cold War communism. Its ideology, she says, is the worst the world has seen since the Nazis. No wonder we’re alarmed and alert.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We have to be vigilant and the threat of terrorism will only increase,” says corporate adviser and Luminis Partners founder Simon Mordant. But, he adds, a society that’s fearful is not a good one. “Politically it has been beaten up far more than it should have been. It’s created a society of fear and it’s unfortunate because people can be anxious when they see Muslim people. In a multicultural society that’s deeply regretful.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The terrorism threat has led the Abbott government to ask for wider powers for the nation’s security agencies, including the ability to access our metadata, the footprint of where we’ve been online. This drew a sharp public rebuke even though many of us are indifferent to the use of such information by big private companies such as <span class="companylink">Google</span>, <span class="companylink">Facebook</span> and <span class="companylink">Twitter</span>. The security of our online data, and the power it gives to those who can access it, was recently illustrated with the hacking of cheating spouse website Ashley Madison.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The collection and use of online data is an ongoing debate in an age when many have abandoned privacy. As we try to work out the boundaries and security of that information, the panel argued its importance warrants a place on the cultural list, under the all-encompassing title Big Data.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Terrorism also became an issue for the ABC this year, but not in its reporting. Rather, it got into hot water over an audience question asked during its Q&A show by Zaky Mallah , who had been charged under Australia’s anti-terrorism laws but was later found not guilty. Mallah’s presence on the show outraged Prime Minister Abbott, who banned his ministerial frontbench from appearing on the program for a period.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Mallah controversy was just one of many conflicts between the ABC and the Abbott government in the past 12 months. Some ministers, including the Prime Minister, have repeatedly questioned the ABC’s independence in its coverage of political events. During this period, the government also cut the ABC’s budget, breaking an election promise not to do so.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“In a way, the level of the attacks on the ABC demonstrate its cultural power and significance and I think it has been right up there in the eye of the storm,” says Ben Oquist, executive director of the Australia Institute and a former Greens chief of staff.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The far-reaching effect of the threat of terrorism on Australian societal behaviour is not always immediately obvious. Consider how three former chiefs of the Australian Defence Force are now in prominent civilian roles. Sir Angus Houston became the Special Envoy to the Ukraine to recover and repatriate Australians killed when the <span class="companylink">Malaysia Airlines</span> jet was shot down. He also heads the Joint Agency Coordination Centre into finding the missing <span class="companylink">Malaysia Airlines</span> jet and is a special envoy for South Australia .</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Another former chief of defence, Sir Peter Cosgrove , is Australia’s Governor-General, while David Hurley, who had served in that role , is now the Governor of NSW. “You’ve also got David Morrison, who gets a rock star response when he goes to address the <span class="companylink">UN</span> on gender issues,” says Parkinson in reference to Australia’s former army chief, who continues to push hard for gender equality in the armed forces.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He says the phenomenon of the Australian military taking leadership positions in mainstream society has not been seen since World War II. “They’re a group of people who are seen to have leadership qualities and they are being embraced in those sorts of roles. Politicians are putting them into the roles but it’s the public that is authorising them in the roles. It’s saying something about the absence of leadership in the community.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">01. PETER MCCLELLAN, ROYAL COMMISSIONS</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Position: Chairman Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse 2014 ranking: 3</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Because: He heads up a royal commission that’s driving profound change among the institutions that perpetrated and covered up abhorrent sexual abuse of children. It’s allowing the nation to address an issue that was previously largely taboo, thereby helping it to heal a gaping wound. The need for the commission is evidenced by the sheer number of victims coming forward, which has overwhelmed it, forcing an extension of its hearings and deliberations for a further two years, until 2017.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What the panel says: We’re drawing upon royal commissions for a sense of authority and cohesion that transcends politics. The commission into child sexual abuse is delivering on that promise. – Ben Oquist We are finally hearing these terrible painful stories of sexual abuse. – Louise Adler A set of forces have been unleashed in society that are shining lights on forms of behaviour and interactions that might have been unacceptable in the past or hushed up, but which people aren’t prepared to go along with any more. – Martin Parkinson I don’t think it’s been widely understood how extreme the abuse has been and how it’s been covered up for decades. – Greg Combet</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">02. ROSIE BATTY</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Position: Advocate against family violence Australian of the Year 2015 2014 ranking: 6</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Because: Batty has used her powerful skills of communication, together with her own personal tragedy, to take the public with her in tackling the entrenched issue of family violence. One woman a week dies at the hands of her partner in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Batty’s work was instrumental in getting Victoria’s Royal Commission into Family Violence established. Attitudes and polices are changing nationally, though there’s a long way to go.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What the panel says: We put her on the list last year because of her superbly composed presence after her son’s murder. This year she was made Australian of the Year and she continues the work and has gained greater prominence as an advocate against domestic violence. She has taken a lead role in that. – Louise Adler Here’s a person you can admire, respect and who is brave. – Martin Parkinson She’s commanding influence with other people of influence. She’s making a difference and changing attitudes. –Tony Mitchelmore</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">03. ISIS, THREAT OF TERRORISM</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">2014 ranking: None</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Because: Australia has become a more fearful nation, with the threat of terrorism and ISIS growing over the past 12 months. The Lindt Café siege in Sydney’s CBD last December, and the images of an Australian boy holding a decapitated head in Syria, brought closer to home the realities of terrorism and the feeling that nowhere is safe. The political messaging around the threat of terrorism has added to concerns, with warnings from Prime Minister Tony Abbott that ISIS is “coming after us”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What the panel says: It’s not a question of if something will occur. It’s a question of when it will occur. – Martin Ferguson The Muslim community is a 99 per cent terrific community, which lives in some fear of speaking out against ISIS. I think that shows that ISIS has significant power in the community.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">– David Friedlander People feel more on edge than they have before, so there’s a real issue out there and ISIS has come to be the latest manifestation of that.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">– Arthur Sinodinos The phenomenon in the last 12 months is the fact that Australian citizens, in reasonably significant numbers, are travelling to the Middle East to fight; an extraordinary thing. – Greg Combet</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">04. . ABC/TRIPLE J</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Position: National broadcaster 2014 ranking: None</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Because: The ABC, led by chief executive Mark Scott (pictured), has been under attack from the Prime Minister and some members of his government over perceived bias. This reached fever pitch with the appearance on the Q&A program of Zaky Mallah, who had been charged under Australia’s anti-terrorism laws but was later found not guilty. He asked a question on proposed citizenship law changes prompted by the hundreds of Australians fleeing to join ISIS. Mallah’s presence on the show outraged Abbott, who banned his ministerial frontbench from appearing on the program for a period. He asked “Which side is the ABC on?” What the panel says: The level of the attacks on the ABC demonstrate its cultural power and significance and I think it’s been right up there in the eye of the storm. – Ben Oquist I nominated Triple J because of its 40th anniversary. That’s 40 years of changing attitudes of young Australians and supporting Australian music. – Martin Parkinson I sit in an open-plan office and all the guys who sit around me are in their 20s. Every week I learn something new that Tom Tilley has told them on Triple J’s Hack. He just seems to have a big influence on the thinking of the 20-somethings.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">– David Friedlander</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">05. SAME-SEX MARRIAGE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">2014 ranking: None</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Because: Two-thirds of the public say they want same-sex marriage and it remains a topic on which the political class is largely out of step with the community. The federal government has kicked the can down the road on this issue, promising to hold a plebiscite or referendum at an unknown future time. Australia’s cultural peers – New Zealand, the United States, England, Canada and Ireland – already have steps in place to make it legal for same-sex couples to marry. People such as Rodney Croome (pictured), head of Australian Marriage Equality, have articulated the case for same-sex marriage over a long period of time.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What the panel says: A huge cultural change has swept Australia in a short time.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">– Ben Oquist A very short time ago the idea of same-sex marriage was a really radical concept. Think how quickly that has turned around. It’s a movement that’s managed to unite very disparate sections of the population. It’s gone from being radical and off the agenda to something that’s seen as completely inevitable. – Tony Mitchelmore The public are ahead of the political class around these sorts of issues. – Martin Parkinson</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">06. GEORGE BRANDIS</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Position: Federal Minister for the Arts 2014 ranking: None</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Because: Brandis made headlines in May with changes to the federal government’s arts funding.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He announced the establishment of a National Program for Excellence in the Arts, which would be funded with $105 million carved out of the <span class="companylink">Australia Council</span>, the national arts funding body set up in 1975 to keep decisions on cultural funding at arm's length from politics. Brandis will have veto power over projects on the new program; not surprisingly, it has caused controversy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What the panel says: I assume he wants the same power to fund particular projects that the state arts ministers have; he now has it. This has generated a lot of concern among small to medium arts organisations. – Louise Adler He’s a very senior cabinet minister who is passionate about the arts in its broadest sense. To not recognise his support for the arts would be a mistake. On both sides of politics the arts ministers in recent years have not been so central to the government. His position on the list is not as a consequence of the recent reallocation of funding.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">– Simon Mordant Brandis has made himself important to the arts community. Therefore, within that community, he’s culturally important. It’s not something that would be widely understood in the broader community. – Greg Combet</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">07. CHINESE INVESTORS IN THE AUSTRALIAN PROPERTY MARKET</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">2014 ranking: None</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Because: Rightly or wrongly, Chinese investors are blamed for pushing house prices in Australia to record highs. Research from focus groups suggest that people blame such investors rather than cashed-up baby boomers or government policies such as negative gearing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The government has cracked down on those who may be breaking the rules around buying Australian properties. This has resulted in the divestment of a handful of properties, including trophy mansions such as Sydney’s $39 million Villa del Mare mansion in Point Piper.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What the panel says: It’s had a huge impact on the way government is now responding, you could say, in some sense, in a xenophobic way. It’s a big issue and it’s potentially going to get bigger.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australians are convinced Chinese investors are responsible for the increase in housing prices.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They’ve got them to blame and they’re going to continue to blame them. – Martin Ferguson If you expect students from rapidly growing middle-class countries in the world to come and study at Australian universities, they’re going to buy flats. You can’t say I don’t want all these Chinese students buying flats. Higher education is a huge export for us. It’s good that we become more of a multicultural country. – Amanda Vanstone Relationships are about power. The Chinese that are coming are perceived to be a threat to people’s personal power and they’re striking back against it. – Tony Mitchelmore</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">08. GLYN DAVIS</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Position: Vice-chancellor University of Melbourne 2014 ranking: None</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Because: He’s vice-chancellor of the only Australian university to have been ranked in the world’s top 50. He contributed significantly to the recent debate around reform to the funding of higher education in Australia and he remains one of the country’s leading intellectuals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What the panel says: Thank heavens we have people like him who are able to articulate a view and do not want to be part of some club. We don’t have enough of them. – Amanda Vanstone Davis has led the education debate and has also transformed Melbourne University into one of the great global universities. He’s passionate about education and driving change in education.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Education is central to our culture. He’s on the list because of his leadership role in the education debate. – Simon Mordant I understand he was offered the vice-chancellorship of <span class="companylink">Oxford University</span> and turned it down because he thinks his work is not finished here. I for one am grateful. – Louise Adler, whose MUP is part of Melbourne University.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">09. RICHARD FLANAGAN</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Position: Author, winner of the 2014 Man Booker Prize 2014 ranking: None</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Because: He won the 2014 Man Booker Prize last October and two months later was crowned joint winner of the fiction category in the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, both won for his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Flanagan has been outspoken on social issues from climate change to the government’s tough stance on <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What the panel says: Anyone who wins the Booker Prize you would have to be proud of. It’s also the subject matter of his book that’s captured people’s imagination. It’s clearly been the most important book in the past 12 months in the Australian literary world. It’s a book that is popularly read, it’s an interesting book and a very Australian book. – Greg Combet Booker Prize winners are pretty rare in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Flanagan’s voice for refugees, the environment and action on climate change has resonated very strongly. He spoke out about the PM's comments on coal being good for humanity. He’s a standout in the cultural space. – Ben Oquist He’s an influential writer, whose body of work has been remarkable. He cares about a variety of issues and speaks from his strength as a writer. He wins the Booker and takes Australian literary culture to the world, which is fantastic for Australian writers and the Australian book industry. – Louise Adler</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">10. AUSTRALIAN MILITARY CHIEFS</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">2014 ranking: None</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Because: Australia’s continuous military engagement since the late 1990s in East Timor and later in the Middle East, Afghanistan and Iraq, has given greater public prominence to the Australian military. In that period, there have been several chiefs of the Australian Defence Force who have retired and now hold prominent roles in society. These include Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove and Sir Angus Houston (pictured). The latter has led the recovery and search for both <span class="companylink">Malaysia Airlines</span> disasters over the past year. Adding to heightened awareness of the military and its history has been the centenary of World War I and Gallipoli.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What the panel says: There’s a sense in the community that there’s a leadership vacuum at the top of federal politics. The lack of leadership from the political class means that leadership is coming from other parts of society. – Ben Oquist They’re a group of people who are seen to have leadership qualities and they are being embraced in those sorts of roles. Politicians are putting them into the roles but it’s the public that’s authorising them in the roles. It’s saying something about the absence of leadership in the community. – Martin Parkinson Leave aside the rights and wrongs of particular wars, what’s happened is their standing in the community has gone up. There was a period in the 1980s and ’90s where it went down and it’s gone back up again. The thing is, they come across as very well-trained, polished professionals. – Arthur Sinodinos</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">11. THINK TANKS</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">2014 ranking: None</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Because: Think tanks such as the Grattan Institute, the <span class="companylink">Institute of Public Affairs</span> and the Australia Institute are contributing to the wider debate around policy and social issues at a time of perceived leadership vacuum at the top of federal politics. Many in business and in the community feel the country is not moving forward on important economic and political reforms. The well-regarded John Daley (pictured), heads the Grattan Institute, and has been pushing politicians on policy reform.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What the panel says: Think tanks have influence to the extent that they make an argument and back it up, which in turn lets more people into an argument or issue. Well-researched papers which articulate views add to the great conversation of life. – Amanda Vanstone Think tanks, while relatively small in size, are able to engage in politics in a horizontally and vertically integrated way. They are releasing research, engaging with politicians and breaking new ideas. – Ben Oquist, who is executive director of the Australia Institute.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">12.BIG DATA</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">2014 ranking: None</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Because: The gathering of extremely large amounts of data that can be analysed to give insights into societal behaviour, predict outcomes and reveal patterns and trends is becoming a powerful force in society. Companies such as <span class="companylink">Google</span> and <span class="companylink">Facebook</span> are huge collectors and users of personal data, as are governments, though people get more upset at the latter’s use of such information than the former's. The power of big data was evident when a Queensland University team involving Dr Xue Li (pictured) predicted the outcome of the January Queensland election. The team used word cloud associations and an algorithm to analyse more than 14,922 tweets.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What the panel says: Big data is changing us.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It’s a $10 billion industry now and it’s going to be a $60 billion industry in 2017. – Peter Høj Put another way, 90 per cent of the world’s data has been collected in the past four years. By 2020 we will be collecting 44 times what we’re collecting now each year. So big data is changing things and government is the last part of the community to wake up to this. It’s a real issue. – Martin Parkinson</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">13. AUSTRALIAN PAVILION IN VENICE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">2014 ranking: None</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Because: The <span class="companylink">Denton Corker Marshall</span>-designed pavilion, which was unveiled in May, is significant not just for Australia but for Venice. It’s the only 21st-century building in the Venice Giardini, the public gardens in which 29 countries exhibit some of their best contemporary art and architecture at biennales held in alternate years. The last building added to the Giardini was the Korean pavilion two decades ago. No other countries have been allowed to rebuild their pavilions, which are heritage-listed. Leading the design was DCM principal John Denton (pictured).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What the panel says: The chance to showcase Australia’s culture internationally is very important, we don’t do enough of it. The results have been very significant for both the Australian visual arts and the architectural community. The new pavilion, previously located next to the toilets, was funded mostly by private donors, with some government money too. The fact it was a private-public partnership helps in advocating for philanthropy in the cultural sphere. – Louise Adler It’s a platform for Australia to show its best contemporary art and architecture in an environment where many nations are exhibiting. It’s put Australia on the map in terms of commentary this year in the art and architecture world. – Simon Mordant, who as Australian commissioner to Venice donated to and led the pavilion fundraising campaign.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">14. GILLIAN TRIGGS</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Position: President Australian Human Rights Commission 2014 ranking: None</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Because: Triggs has resisted enormous pressure from the federal government to resign, with ministers such as Attorney-General George Brandis stating they had lost confidence in her and that she needed to be above partisan politics.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The government has long criticised Triggs as being partisan for delaying a report into children in detention until after Labor’s defeat at the federal election. The relationship soured further when Triggs linked the government’s <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> turn-back policy to Indonesia’s decision to execute Bali Nine members Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What the panel says: Triggs has had a very visible and prominent role advocating for the role of the Human Rights Commission. She has been under enormous attack, fairly or unfairly, but it’s indisputable the effect she has had in the past 12 months. – Louise Adler I put her on the list because, whether you agree with her or not, she has the capacity to cause the government to overreach every time she opens her mouth. – Martin Parkinson She’s had the guts to stand up to the government. – Greg Combet</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">15. ADAM GOODES</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Position: Sydney Swans footballer 2014 ranking: None</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Because: Goodes has become a lightning rod for a difficult, highly charged discussion about racism in Australia, a debate many feel needed to be had. It began in 2013 when a 13-year-old girl at the AFL’s Indigenous round called him an ape. He pointed out the girl, who later apologised, then he told the public that the person who needed the most support was the girl. Over the years since, and particularly this year, the AFL player has been repeatedly booed by opposition fans at matches. He took time off because of it and received enormous public support, particularly on social media.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What the panel says: Goodes is an absolutely admirable Australian. He hasn’t shied away at any stage from standing up and drawing our attention to parts of our national culture which are completely unacceptable for Australia in the 21st century. What he’s done is fantastic. What’s terrible is the personal toll it’s taken on him. – Martin Parkinson</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I’m ashamed of the booing of Goodes at the AFL games. It’s a shameful thing. It’s very important for the cohesion of the country that it stops. He needs to be respected for his contribution. He’s symbolic in many people’s minds of Indigenous Australia. – Greg Combet</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Syrian <b>refugee</b> pledge - <b>Asylum</b> seekers sense opportunity</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A Bangladeshi man on board a people-smuggling <b>boat</b> that attempted to reach Christmas Island says they were given hope by the Abbott government's decision to resettle thousands of refugees from Syria.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We are waiting here [in Indonesia], because the road to Australia not so good, they don't accept [<b>asylum</b> seekers], they send them back," Bangladeshi Mochamad Jahangir Husain told <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span>. "We heard they changed, they take 12,000 Syrian <b>refugee</b>[s]. Everybody is taking them in.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"There are problems in my home, poverty and war, shooting every day. We took chance to go on a <b>boat</b> to Australia."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said they had also heard that Australia had a new Prime Minister: "It's a chance. Australia will accept us, must accept us."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Twenty-one people, including 18 men from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan and three Indonesian crew members, were arrested on Wednesday after their <b>boat</b> was stranded on a beach in Cianjur in West Java.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is the first known people-smuggling incident since Malcolm Turnbull became Prime Minister and follows speculation that people smugglers would test the waters to see if the new leadership would take a more lenient approach on immigration policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull has admitted concern about conditions on offshore processing centres but ruled out a change to existing policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It is absolutely clear that there will be no resettlement of people on Manus Island and Nauru in Australia. They will never come to Australia," he told Radio National.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I know that's tough. You could say we have a harsh border protection policy but it has worked."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The new Chief of Mission in Indonesia for the International Organisation of Migration, Mark Getchell, said <b>asylum</b> seekers and refugees always looked for any positive slants on changes to policy or leadership.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Even the slightest example of something changing, they are going to interpret it in a positive way and make decisions based on this interpretation," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, Mr Getchell warned that Mr Turnbull had said he would not be making policy changes on the run. Immigration Minister Peter Dutton had reaffirmed that the government's immigration policy had not changed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"<b>Asylum</b> seekers thinking about getting on boats should realise nothing has changed," Mr Getchell said. He also pointed out that other boats had left Indonesia during the past six months.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Husain said he had been approached by a people smuggler who said a <b>boat</b> was going to Australia that cost 2000 Malaysian ringgit (about $650) for the trip.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They left from Pameungpeuk Garut, a small town near the south-western coast of Java.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We were seven to eight hours on the sea and the crew said: 'We don't have enough fuel, the engine is leaking, we have to go back.' I said: 'No. We go to Christmas Island'. The crew said: 'We can't, we will die, better we return.' "</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <b>boat</b> was stranded on Jayanti beach in Cianjur, West Java, on Wednesday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Police chief Oni Haeroni said his officers assisted in securing the <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Our officers found them not far from the beach. They didn't wander far, they weren't trying to run away," he said. "They just went to the local houses by the beach. The crew were just there, waiting to be arrested. They are from Makassar in Sulawesi. Their boss sent them to Garut. They said they were promised 30 million rupiah ($2900) each to crew the <b>boat</b>."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Husain said he was poor and didn't have any money. "I want to go to Australia and make money. I'm very sad, I worked very hard to make that money [to pay the people smugglers] and now it's all gone."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Charles Honoris, an MP from the ruling PDI-P party in Indonesia and member of the commission that oversees foreign affairs and defence issues, said he doubted the advent of the Turnbull government would see an influx of <b>asylum</b> seeker boats to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I haven't heard if Mr Turnbull has announced a change in foreign policy," Mr Honoris said. "But I suspect there will be no change, he'll continue what Mr Abbott has set in place."</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Relaxed visa rules are truly working</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Nick Toscano   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>505 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>25 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">How sweet it is to wake to a new day - a day with a shape, a day with meaning. Hamid Ali rises early. He pours tea into a Thermos, pulls on a vest and steps outside into the morning chill. Then he starts to smile.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Two years I have been in Australia and there was nothing," he says. "We had no permission to work, we could not go to school ... all I could do was stay at home."</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Like thousands of other <b>asylum</b> seekers who came by <b>boat</b> after August 2012, Mr Ali has been under visa conditions that stopped him from getting a job and restricted him to a fraction of the dole, $31 a day, scarcely enough for rent. Days stretched into weeks, months into years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But this morning, his first day back on the tools, the Pakistani Hazara is standing tall, surveying the construction site where he will be a brickie.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I am bricklaying the fences here," says Mr Ali. "Soon I will hopefully have bigger projects and can do a complete house."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia's strict visa rules that have forced <b>asylum</b> seekers to live in destitution are now being relaxed, with the federal government rubber-stamping new work approvals in numbers not seen for years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Statistics obtained this week reveal a staggering 22,800 <b>asylum</b> seekers between January and September have been granted eligibility to start earning a living.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"In the same period last year, large numbers of illegal maritime arrivals remained in detention," a Border Force spokeswoman said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Many were released on Bridging <span class="companylink">Visa</span> E without work rights. A total of 62 had work rights."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Of 25,000 <b>boat</b> arrivals now living in the community on bridging visas, more than 24,400 can now work.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Migrant resettlement service AMES said more than 2000 <b>asylum</b> seeker clients had received work rights, up from 350 in February.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Work is not just about a pay cheque, it is a source of pride, self-reliance, improved health and sense of self-worth," chief executive Cath Scarth said. "It gives structure and meaning to people's lives and it is the fabric from which our society is wrought."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The rush of new work approvals follows the federal government lifting a stay on processing <b>asylum</b> seeker protection claims and has begun a "fast-track" processing system.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the controversial system has also drawn criticism from legal groups, which say it could lead to legitimate <b>asylum</b> seekers being sent back to persecution in their home countries. <b>Asylum</b> seekers will have a single opportunity to make their claim to the department, and face more stringent limits on their right to appeal a negative decision.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Asylum</b> Seeker Resource Centre chief executive Kon Karapanagiotidis said the government was "giving with one hand while taking away with the other".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Now they face the prospect of only being eligible for temporary protection from the war, violence and persecution they have escaped in their home country," he said.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Stranded <b>asylum</b> seekers rescued</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>207 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CourierMail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>12</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A SMUGGLER’S <b>boat</b> bound for Australia carrying 24 people became stranded yesterday morning in heavy seas off the south coast of Java after running into engine trouble.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <b>boat</b>, crewed by three Indonesians from Makassar, was believed to be carrying 14 Bangladeshis and seven Indians, who were all rescued by local fishermen and taken to the nearby town of Cidaun.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Courier-Mail understands the engine failed in large waves, stranding the passengers at sea and leading them to call local fishermen to save them. It is believed there were no deaths.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Cidaun is the same location from where an overloaded <b>boat</b> carrying Sri Lankans and Iranians set sail in July 2013, shortly after then prime minister Kevin Rudd announced that anyone who came by <b>boat</b> would never be settled in Australia but would instead go to Manus Island or Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That <b>boat</b>, carrying up to 200 people, broke up in heavy seas. The actual death count was never known, but it was believed to be around 30.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Only one <b>boat</b> is known to have come close to the Australian mainland since Tony Abbott took power in late 2013.Maritime forces have turned back 20 boats since the Coalition took power.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Fishing boats save Australia-bound <b>asylum</b> seekers from rough sea, engine failure</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>317 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CourierMail3</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A SMUGGLER’S <b>boat</b> bound for Australia carrying 24 people was disabled yesterday morning in heavy seas off the south coast of Java after running into engine trouble.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <b>boat</b>, crewed by three Indonesians from Makassar, was believed to be carrying 14 Bangladeshis and seven Indians, who were all rescued by local fishermen and taken to the nearby town of Cidaun.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Courier-Mail understands the <b>boat</b> was under way when the engine failed in large swells, leaving the passengers helpless at sea and leading them to call local fishermen to rescue them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is believed there were no deaths. Cidaun is the same location from where an overloaded <b>boat</b> carrying Sri Lankans and Iranians set sail in July 2013, shortly after then prime minister Kevin Rudd announced that anyone who came by <b>boat</b> would never be settled in Australia but would instead go to Manus Island or Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That <b>boat</b>, carrying up to 200 people, broke up in heavy seas. The actual death count was never known, but it was believed to be around 30. Only one <b>boat</b> is believed to have got close to the Australian mainland after Tony Abbott took power in late 2013.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That was a group of Vietnamese, who in July last year slipped the Border Force net and sailed close to Dampier, in northwest WA, where they were intercepted and reportedly sent back to Vietnam.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton confirmed last month maritime forces had turned back 20 boats since the Coalition won government.It is unknown if the latest <b>boat</b> set sail in response to the change of leadership, or if they had been conned by smugglers that Australia had changed its policies after it agreed to take 12,000 Syrian refugees. Passengers know boats have failed to reach Australia for two years but they keep boarding.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>New <b>boat</b> puts Mal’s resolve to the test</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>PAUL TOOHEY, EXCLUSIVE </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>596 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2015 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A SMUGGLER’S <b>boat</b> bound for Australia carrying 24 people became stranded yesterday morning in heavy seas off the south coast of Java after running into engine trouble.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <b>boat</b>, crewed by three Indonesians from Makassar and understood to be carrying 14 Bangladeshis and seven ­Indians, is believed to be the first such vessel headed for Australia since new Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull ousted Tony Abbott .</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The revelations of the foiled voyage came as Mr Turnbull said while he shared the public’s concern on offshore processing of <b>asylum</b> seekers, he confirmed that he would not be altering the government’s resettlement policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The stranded <b>asylum</b> seekers were all rescued by local fishermen and taken to the nearby town of Cidaun.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Daily Telegraph understands the <b>boat</b>’s engine failed in large waves, stranding the passengers at sea and leading them to call local fishermen to save them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is believed there were no deaths.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Cidaun is the same location from where an overloaded <b>boat</b> carrying Sri Lankans and Iranians set sail in July 2013, shortly after then prime minister Kevin Rudd announced that anyone who came by <b>boat</b> would never be settled in Australia but would instead go to Manus Island or Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That <b>boat</b>, carrying up to 200 people, broke up in heavy seas. The actual death count was never known, but it was believed to be about 30.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Only one <b>boat</b> is believed to have got close to the Australian mainland after Tony Abbott took power in late 2013, but The Daily Telegraph ­exclusively revealed yesterday that Indonesian-based people smugglers had for months been trying to pre-sell <b>boat</b> passages to Australia on the promise of a change of ­leadership.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A well-connected Iranian <b>asylum</b> seeker stranded in Jakarta revealed how he was ­approached by an Iranian smuggler a month ago, who told him the leadership would soon change and the way to Australia would reopen.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The sole <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> to have come close to the Australian coast during former PM Tony Abbott ’s tenure bore a group of Vietnamese, who in July last year slipped the Border Force net and sailed close to Dampier, in northwest WA.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That was where they were intercepted and reportedly sent back to Vietnam. Immigration Minister Peter Dutton confirmed last month that Australian maritime forces had intercepted and turned back 20 boats since the ­Coalition took power, including putting some in lifeboats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is not known whether the latest <b>boat</b> set sail in response to the change of leadership, or whether its passengers had been conned by smugglers into believing Australia had changed policies after it agreed to take 12,000 Syrian refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The incident came as Mr Turnbull confirmed on Sky News yesterday that there would be no Australian ­resettlement of <b>asylum</b> seekers in centres on Manus Island and Nauru. “I have the same concerns about the situation of people on Manus (Island) and Nauru ... as I think almost all Australians would do,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“But I’m not going to make changes on border protection policy sitting here.” Mr Dutton yesterday said there could be changes on the horizon, they would only be to reinforce the current stance on <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Ultimately we’ve been very clear that people will not be settling in Australia,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“If we need to sharpen our program, our policies, which will make it even harder for people smugglers to get through the net, that’s exactly what we’ll do.”EDITORIAL PAGE 28</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>People-smugglers test PM’s resolve on boats</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SARAH MARTIN PETER ALFORD </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1344 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>8</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">People-smugglers test Turnbull’s resolve Malcolm Turnbull has been forced to reassert the government’s hardline border protection policy, after people-smugglers yesterday tested the new Prime Minister’s commitment to turning back boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The bid to reach Christmas Island­ was foiled by Indonesian authorities as Immigration Minister Peter Dutton warned that people­-smugglers would try to exploit­ the change in Australia’s leadership to revive their trade.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last night 18 adults and children who had indicated they were trying to reach Australia were detained by police at Cinanjur, West Java, along with three Indonesian crew.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull hardened his language to say he would not budge on tough border policies, after suggesting earlier in the day that the government could reconsider its policy of not resettling <b>boat</b> arrivals in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We cannot take a backward step on this issue,” he told ABC Radio last night. “People who come via the people­-smuggling route will never settle in Australia: that is the one message that has to be absolutely crystal clear.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They will never settle in Australia, it is only by being utterly­ unequivocal on this matter that we have been able to stop the boats, and that has saved hundreds of lives.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Yes, we are a generous country; yes, we are a compassionate country; but we will not tolerate people-smuggling.” Mr Turnbull had earlier indic­ated that policies applying to <b>asylum</b>-seekers in offshore detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island­ could be reconsidered by cabinet, but acknowledged the area was “contentious”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I understand the issue, I have the same concerns about the situation of people on Manus and Nauru as you do, and as other people­ and I would think all Australians do, and as the minister Mr Dutton does,” he told Sky News.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Our policies will change, all policies change, but when we do make changes we will do so in a considered way and they will be made by the ministers, the minister, myself, the cabinet.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“This is an area that clearly is one that is controversial, one that is challenging, and it is certainly one that close attention is being paid to.” As revealed in The Australian on Monday, Australia’s intelligence agencies believed the highly developed people-smuggling indus­try­ was readying to test the new Prime Minister and his new national securit­y team.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <b>boat</b> intercepted yesterday was found by coastal fishermen adrift and low on fuel and taken to shore, where local police arrested 14 Bangladeshis, two Indians and two Pakistanis.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“They asked to be taken to shore,” one of the fishermen, Mamun, told Okezone online news service. “When we found them, they are running low on food and drinks. Most of them are adults, some with small children, so we took them ashore and called the police.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Cidaun police chief Guntur Rahayu told Okezone: “They left from (nearby) Garut and were heading to Australia. But the ship ran out of fuel and they were brought to land. We are co-ordin­ating with immigration now.” One of the Bangladeshis told Metro TV he was escaping “poverty and riots” at home. “My destin­ation is Australia,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton warned that, with the change in prime ministership, people-smugglers would try to paint Mr Turnbull’s appointment as a weakness that could be exploited. “When I came into the portfolio to replace Scott Morrison they were messaging out to say that a softer minister had come in and you can get on boats and come to Australia,” he told Sky News.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“They will try and message out in relation to the Prime Minister coming in to his job, to us being very generous in terms of taking 12,000 refugees from Syria.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“These are people who know no morals and they will do whatever they can to try and get back into business.” Mr Dutton, who retained the immigration portfolio in Sunday’s reshuffle under Mr Turnbull despite­ being a strong supporter of Tony Abbott , said he had been assured­ that the government’s policies would continue. “I want to be very clear, as we have been all along, to people-smugglers, to those who would seek to take money from innocent people and to put them on boats … that the government’s policy is as strong as it has ever been.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The Prime Minister has stated publicly, as he has to me privately, that he wants a continuation of the policy to make sure that we don’t allow the people-smugglers to get back into business.” Mr Turnbull has faced opposition criticism because Mr Dutton was not made a permanent member of the national security committee of cabinet, as he was under Mr Abbott.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor’s immigration spokesman Richard Marles said leaving Mr Dutton out of the NSC was a “worrying sign” and suggested it was political payback to downgrade his influence because he had voted for Mr Abbott.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The notion that the minister responsible for the integrity of our borders doesn’t form part of NSC is naive and displays an alarming lack of judgment,” Mr Marles said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull indicated yesterday that Mr Dutton may be reinstated to the NSC, arguing that his ministerial arrangements were not set “in stone”. “I’d rather start off with the NSC being leaner to begin with and if we have to change the permanent membership we can do so,” Mr Turnbull said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tasmanian MP Andrew Nikolic, an Abbott loyalist, said it was essential that the government’s border protection policies were not changed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The Coalition’s border protection policies and resolve have been the key to defeating the people-smugglers. That resolve, which is now bipartisan, must continue to ensure that the boats and the deaths at sea do not start again,” he told The Australian.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Marles has been critical of conditions in offshore centres, but Labor supports the government’s policy of not allowing <b>boat</b> arrivals to be resettled in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“This is a difficult issue: we are deeply concerned about the fate of those people on Manus and Nauru, we’re also deeply concerned to make sure that we don’t see any policy changes which result in people dying on our borders again,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Advocacy groups and the Greens have urged Mr Turnbull to remove children from the Nauru detention centre and to allow <b>asylum</b>-seekers on temporary visas who have arrived by <b>boat</b> to resettle in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I urge Mr Turnbull to show that Australia is strong enough to care for refugees by releasing the children that are locked up offshore,” Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young said last week.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The row between Jakarta and Canberra over Operation Sovereign Borders turning <b>asylum</b>-seekers back to Indonesia was reignited in early June when 65 boatpeople came ashore on Rote, in the eastern islands, the crew telling police they were paid thousands of dollars to return the passengers to Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yesterday’s interception was the first departure of a <b>boat</b> this year prevented by Indonesian authorities.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is possible the journey was in planning before word reached Indonesia of Australia’s change of leadership last week and that increased the temptation to test the new Prime Minister’s resolve on keeping the boats stopped.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even when the people-smuggling business was at its peak in mid-2013, it usually took a fortnight or more for the operators to buy a <b>boat</b>, recruit crew and organise passengers. The isolated coast south of Cidaun had been a frequently used jumping-off point for Christmas Island-bound boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The last of the severe <b>boat</b> accidents following then prime minister Kevin Rudd ’s edict that no <b>asylum</b>-seekers arriving by sea would be allowed to live in Australia happened off Cidaun in July 2013.At last 33 people, including young children, drowned and 189 were rescued. There was no information available from police on links to the organisers and most smugglers have been out of business since late 2013.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>First assault: new <b>boat</b> tests Turnbull’s resolve</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SARAH MARTIN, PETER ALFORD </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1338 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Malcolm Turnbull has been forced to reassert the government’s hardline border protection policy, after people-smugglers yesterday tested the new Prime Minister’s commitment to turning back boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The bid to reach Christmas Island­ was foiled by Indonesian authorities as Immigration Minister Peter Dutton warned that people­-smugglers would try to exploit­ the change in Australia’s leadership to revive their trade.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last night 18 adults and children who had indicated they were trying to reach Australia were detained by police at Cinanjur, West Java, along with three Indonesian crew.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull hardened his language to say he would not budge on tough border policies, after suggesting earlier in the day that the government could reconsider its policy of not resettling <b>boat</b> arrivals in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We cannot take a backward step on this issue,” he told ABC radio last night. “People who come via the people­-smuggling route will never settle in Australia: that is the one message that has to be absolutely crystal clear.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They will never settle in Australia, it is only by being utterly­ unequivocal on this matter that we have been able to stop the boats, and that has saved hundreds of lives.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Yes, we are a generous country; yes, we are a compassionate country; but we will not tolerate people-smuggling.” Mr Turnbull had earlier indic­ated that policies applying to ­<b>asylum</b>-seekers in offshore detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island­ could be reconsidered by cabinet, but acknowledged the area was “contentious”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I understand the issue, I have the same concerns about the situation of people on Manus and Nauru as you do, and as other people­ and I would think all Australians do, and as the minister Mr Dutton does,” he told Sky News.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Our policies will change, all policies change, but when we do make changes we will do so in a considered way and they will be made by the ministers, the minister, myself, the cabinet.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“This is an area that clearly is one that is controversial, one that is challenging, and it is certainly one that close attention is being paid to.” As revealed in The Australian on Monday, Australia’s intelligence agencies believed the highly developed people-smuggling indus­try­ was readying to test the new Prime Minister and his new national securit­y team.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <b>boat</b> intercepted yesterday was found by coastal fishermen adrift and low on fuel and taken to shore, where local police arrested 14 Bangladeshis, two Indians and two Pakistanis.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“They asked to be taken to shore,” one of the fishermen, Mamun, told Okezone online news service. “When we found them, they are running low on food and drinks. Most of them are adults, some with small children, so we took them ashore and called the police.” Cidaun police chief Guntur Rahayu told Okezone: “They left from (nearby) Garut and were heading to Australia. But the ship ran out of fuel and they were brought to land. We are co-ordin­ating with immigration now.” One of the Bangladeshis told Metro TV he was escaping “poverty and riots” at home. “My destin­ation is Australia,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton warned that, with the change in prime ministership, people-smugglers would try to paint Mr Turnbull’s appointment as a weakness that could be exploited. “When I came into the portfolio to replace Scott Morrison they were messaging out to say that a softer minister had come in and you can get on boats and come to Australia,” he told Sky News.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“They will try and message out in relation to the Prime Minister coming in to his job, to us being very generous in terms of taking 12,000 refugees from Syria.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“These are people who know no morals and they will do whatever they can to try and get back into business.” Mr Dutton, who retained the immigration portfolio in Sunday’s reshuffle under Mr Turnbull despite­ being a strong supporter of Tony Abbott , said he had been assured­ that the government’s policies would continue. “I want to be very clear, as we have been all along, to people-smugglers, to those who would seek to take money from innocent people and to put them on boats … that the government’s policy is as strong as it has ever been.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The Prime Minister has stated publicly, as he has to me privately, that he wants a continuation of the policy to make sure that we don’t allow the people-smugglers to get back into business.” Mr Turnbull has faced opposition criticism because Mr Dutton was not made a permanent member of the national security committee of cabinet, as he was under Mr Abbott.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor’s immigration spokesman Richard Marles said leaving Mr Dutton out of the NSC was a “worrying sign” and suggested it was political payback to downgrade his influence because he had voted for Mr Abbott.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The notion that the minister responsible for the integrity of our borders doesn’t form part of NSC is naive and displays an alarming lack of judgment,” Mr Marles said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull indicated yesterday that Mr Dutton may be reinstated to the NSC, arguing that his ministerial arrangements were not set “in stone”. “I’d rather start off with the NSC being leaner to begin with and if we have to change the permanent membership we can do so,” Mr Turnbull said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tasmanian MP Andrew Nikolic, an Abbott loyalist, said it was essential that the government’s border protection policies were not changed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The Coalition’s border protection policies and resolve have been the key to defeating the people-smugglers. That resolve, which is now bipartisan, must continue to ensure that the boats and the deaths at sea do not start again,” he told The Australian.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Marles has been critical of conditions in offshore centres, but Labor supports the government’s policy of not allowing <b>boat</b> arrivals to be resettled in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“This is a difficult issue: we are deeply concerned about the fate of those people on Manus and Nauru, we’re also deeply concerned to make sure that we don’t see any policy changes which result in people dying on our borders again,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Advocacy groups and the Greens have urged Mr Turnbull to remove children from the Nauru detention centre and to allow <b>asylum</b>-seekers on temporary visas who have arrived by <b>boat</b> to resettle in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I urge Mr Turnbull to show that Australia is strong enough to care for refugees by releasing the children that are locked up offshore,” Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young said last week.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The row between Jakarta and Canberra over Operation Sovereign Borders turning <b>asylum</b>-seekers back to Indonesia was reignited in early June when 65 boatpeople came ashore on Rote, in the eastern islands, the crew telling police they were paid thousands of dollars to return the passengers to Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yesterday’s interception was the first departure of a <b>boat</b> this year prevented by Indonesian authorities.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is possible the journey was in planning before word reached Indonesia of Australia’s change of leadership last week and that increased the temptation to test the new Prime Minister’s resolve on keeping the boats stopped.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even when the people-smuggling business was at its peak in mid-2013, it usually took a fortnight or more for the operators to buy a <b>boat</b>, recruit crew and organise passengers. The isolated coast south of Cidaun had been a frequently used jumping-off point for Christmas Island-bound boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The last of the severe <b>boat</b> accidents following then prime minister Kevin Rudd ’s edict that no <b>asylum</b>-seekers arriving by sea would be allowed to live in Australia happened off Cidaun in July 2013.At last 33 people, including young children, drowned and 189 were rescued. There was no information available from police on links to the organisers and most smugglers have been out of business since late 2013.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'><b>Asylum</b> seekers rescued</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>PAUL TOOHEY </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>192 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A SMUGGLER’S <b>boat</b> bound for Australia carrying 24 people became stranded yesterday morning in heavy seas off the south coast of Java, after running into engine trouble.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <b>boat</b>, crewed by three Indonesians from Makassar, was believed to be carrying 14 Bangladeshis and seven Indians, who were all rescued by local fishermen and taken to the nearby town of Cidaun.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <b>boat</b>’s engine is understood to have failed in large waves, stranding the passengers at sea and leading them to call local fishermen to save them. There were no apparent deaths.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Cidaun is the same location from where an overloaded <b>boat</b> carrying Sri Lankans and Iranians set sail in July 2013, shortly after then prime minister Kevin Rudd announced that anyone who came by <b>boat</b> would never be settled in Australia but would instead go to Manus Island or Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That <b>boat</b>, carrying up to 200 people, broke up in heavy seas. The death count was believed to be around 30.Immigration Minister Peter Dutton confirmed last month that Australian maritime forces had intercepted and turned back 20 boats since the Coalition took power.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>708 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>B004</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Refugee</b> crisis reminds us we never really had one</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ustralia's current <b>asylum</b> policy is often compared with the country's more humanitarian past. Many have accused today's government of defying a proud humanitarian tradition of welcoming persecuted people. "We used to be better than this", the critics cry. They are referring to a more compassionate time when the Australian public welcomed <b>asylum</b> seekers and "took pity despite our misgivings". In 1976, Australia received its first "<b>boat</b> people". Around 60 boats arrived, bringing 2000 people fleeing Indochina. Australia then resettled more than 185,000 refugees. This effort involved host countries allowing <b>asylum</b> seekers to stay while their cases were being assessed by resettlement countries, which agreed to fast- track their claims. Australian officials flew to regional camps and assessed those with claims to <b>asylum</b> before flying them to Australia, essentially preventing</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">them from taking the precarious <b>boat</b> trip. It is these policies that have been hailed as part of our proud humanitarian tradition. But were these actions really motivated by humanitarianism? Truth be told, these policies were all about stopping the boats, and they always have been. In the face of the 1976 crisis, Australia did not help until it was forced to do so when boats began arriving on the nation's shores. When Australian officials began assessing <b>asylum</b> claims in the regional camps of Southeast Asia, they did so selectively. Refugees were picked on the basis of strict criteria,</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">including health checks and work suitability. This ensured the government exercised control over the "flow and quality". This is why today's government fears the boats. <b>Boat</b> people choose us. They display agency in arriving on our shores, effectively undermining the government's agency in selecting who can arrive. So the people-smugglers are painted as the "scum of the earth", not so much for exploiting vulnerable people (they are supplying a service for which there is demand), but for taking the control of who can come to Australia away from the government. In 1996, the Howard government linked the Offshore Program (refugees abroad we select to resettle), and the Onshore Program (those who have already made it to Australia and then apply for <b>asylum</b> from within). This meant that for every place granted to a person who had already arrived in Australia, a place was taken from those allocated to the</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Offshore Program. This fed into the government's narrative that <b>boat</b> people were "queue jumpers" and therefore robbing a "genuine" <b>refugee</b> from their place of safety. Now the government has "stopped the boats", it can get on with the humanitarian task at hand - resettling those "real" refugees being robbed by <b>boat</b> people and people smugglers. So why did it take the government so long to commit to resettling Syrian refugees after other industrialised countries had opened their doors? Aren't we supposed to be a "good international citizen?" The government's decision to resettle 12,000 Syrians above our quota (subject to the same stringent testing used in the Indochinese crisis) is a start, but that is all it is. Germany is set to resettle 800,000 Syrian refugees and Britain has committed to 20,000 over five years. This diminishes Australia's claim to being a "good international citizen"; it is</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">certainly not one who is leading the rest of the world. In fact, the crisis in Europe reminds us that we never really had a crisis. Photographs of drowned children, stories of tragic desperation and Germans who meet <b>asylum</b> seekers on their arrival with water, candy and blankets are moving the Australian public to demand we do more for the Syrian refugees. Let us just spare a thought for those Syrians on Manus Island and Nauru, those Syrians who were on boats that we turned around, and those Syrians who very recently returned to Syria after reaching breaking point in Australian-run offshore detention centres.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Carly Gordyn is a PhD scholar researching the international <b>refugee</b> regime at The <span class="companylink">Australian National University</span>'s Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs. This article was also published at New Mandala, Australia's premier website on Southeast Asia politics and society.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Famous pianist makes his escape</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By RUTH POLLARD   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>556 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>23 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Newcastle Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NEHR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>20</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.fd.com.au[http://www.fd.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEIRUT: Even as he walks along the border from Croatia into Austria, pianist Ayham al-Ahmad is singing the songs of Yarmouk.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He is a long way from the neighbourhood he called home for 27 years, a home he was forced to flee in April when <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span> militants took control of much of Yarmouk, the besieged Palestinian <b>refugee</b> camp just six kilometres from the centre of Damascus.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Since then he has made the trek from Syria into Turkey and down to the Mediterranean coastal city of Izmir where tens of thousands of Syrians have made the short but dangerous passage to Greece.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Documenting every step of his journey on <span class="companylink">Facebook</span>, the famous piano player of Yarmouk made a quiet, heartfelt plea for safety as he prepared for the sea crossing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Dearest Mediterranean, I am Ayham and I would like to safely ride your waves," he wrote on September 14. "People here just want to go to Europe, [they are] paying through their noses for it. They ride in dinghies prone to overturning in seconds, taking all their lives to your deepest canyons. So what's the solution?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We would like Turkey to open its borders with Greece and let us board overland in safety, away from the boats of death," he wrote, signing off: "This is Yarmouk, from the heart of Turkey, Ayham."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The days when I felt the most helpless were when I had money, but I could not get milk for my year-old baby Kinan, or when my older son Ahmad would ask me for a biscuit," he told Agence France-Presse of leaving his wife and two young children behind - for now - to find a secure place in Europe where he can bring them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ayham had held out for two years as the situation in Yarmouk deteriorated, moving his piano onto an old wooden trolley that he could wheel out of danger whenever the militants got too close or the regime shelling proved too dangerous.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When he finally decided to move his family out of Yarmouk to the neighbouring suburb of Yalda in April, militants from IS stopped him at a checkpoint.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They burnt his beloved piano to the ground in front of him, declaring: "don't you know that music is haram [forbidden by Islam]," AFP reported.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By the time he made it to Turkey's coast, Ayham was exhausted and suspicious of the people smugglers who were making their fortune off the desperation of those fleeing the conflict in Syria.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We got into the inflatable <b>boat</b> and we made a deal with the smuggler that he wouldn't let more than 40 person to get in it with us," Ayham wrote on <span class="companylink">Facebook</span> on September 16. "I was surprised to find more than 67 persons and a lot of baggage."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To everyone's great relief, he posted again the next day: "After a dangerous trip through the Mediterranean Sea I arrived to Greece, thanks for all the prayers and wishes, I love you all very much."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By Monday, Ayham had become one of the 12,000 to 13,000 refugees who had entered Austria in just 24 hours between Sunday and Monday. He is counting down the days before he can send for his family.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Seeking passage as PM changes</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>PAUL TOOHEY   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>269 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>23 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PEOPLE smugglers in Indonesia, correctly anticipating upheavals in Canberra, had for months been trying to pre-sell <b>boat</b> passages to Australia on the promise of leadership change.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A well-connected Iranian <b>asylum</b>-seeker stranded in Jakarta told The Advertiser he was approached by an Iranian smuggler a month ago, who said the leadership would soon change and that the way to Australia would reopen.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The smuggler guaranteed a ride to Australia for US$5000, once a new prime minister was installed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“He said the Australian PM will change and after that we start,” said the <b>asylum</b>-seeker, who has been waiting since mid-2013 for the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> to relocate him to a Western country after the <b>boat</b> he was taking to Australia sank off south Java.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The smugglers’ recruitment campaign did not identify incoming Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull as a soft touch on boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Rather, Tony Abbott was pitched as so hard line that any replacement would be milder.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Smugglers and up to 10,000 refugees and <b>asylum</b>-seekers in Indonesia closely monitor the intrigues of Australian politics.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Smugglers use stories of political change to part desperate people to part with the last of their cash, without necessarily having boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Boat</b> interceptions by Australian authorities are now conducted in absolute secrecy, though Immigration Peter Dutton confirmed last month there had been 20 turnbacks to Indonesia since the Abbott government took power in 2013.Meanwhile, <b>asylum</b>-seekers in Jakarta say they are not seeing any newly arrived Syrians looking to register as refugees. Almost all Syrians have chosen Europe as their destination.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Gaffe-prone Dutton keeps portfolio</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>597 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>23 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian Financial Review</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AFNR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2015. Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When Malcolm Turnbull on Sunday unveiled the most radical reshuffle of a government frontbench in years, there was considerable surprise that Immigration Minister Peter Dutton was one of the few ministers left standing with his portfolio.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After all, Dutton had been widely reported to have texted the new Prime Minister last week offering his resignation.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There was the embarrassment of the hastily abandoned Operation Fortitude in Melbourne, when Dutton's Border Force announced they would do random visa checks on anyone they ran into on the street. The "boom mic" moment, when he was caught making a bad joke about rising sea levels in the Pacific, was one of the incidents in the last days of the Abbott prime ministership that seemed to reinforce the idea that when things start to go wrong in politics, everything goes wrong.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet on Sunday afternoon, there was Peter Dutton, still standing, still occupying his portfolio - one of only four senior ministers to retain their jobs - even if it subsequently emerged that he had lost his permanent spot in the most powerful inner sanctum of the government - the National Security Committee of federal cabinet.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Whatever Dutton's personal qualities, multiple government sources argue there are a number of reasons why stability is needed in border security, and therefore why it is needed in the Immigration Minister's job. The first is the need for continuityof message on border policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sources told The <span class="companylink">Australian Financial</span> Review that there was a lift in "chatter" detected by security services among people-smuggling networks when Dutton replaced Scott Morrison as immigration minister, with plans to "test" if the change meant a change in policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is some anxiety that the policy will be tested again with a change of prime minister. It's being argued that a change of minister in the sensitive immigration portfolio would only refocus attention on policy, just as Labor's adoption of <b>boat</b> turnbacks has largely put the issue beyond political contention.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is also anxiety in the reformed government about the <b>asylum</b> seekers stuck without hope on Manus Island and Nauru. That will not mean a shift in the hardline policy that none of these people will ever come to Australia, but it will mean an escalation of attempts to resolve their plight by finding homes for them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If border protection isn't such a subject of contention, it might be possible for the government to distance itself from the aggressive rhetoric used by Abbott about national security. "You can change the whole tenor and tone of the national security debate if you don't change the border protection policy or its minister," one source said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dutton's presence on the NSC on an "as needed" basis is a sign of an erosion in the link between national security and immigration. "I'm co-opted into the National Security Committee when there is a border security issue," Mr Dutton told Adelaide radio on Tuesday. There will now be only three ongoing members of the NSC: Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop and Attorney-General George Brandis.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Suggestions in Canberra that the militarised Border Force might be de-escalated were quickly scotched by senior sources on Tuesday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The opposition is clearly happy for Mr Dutton to keep the portfolio, given his recent missteps.Opposition immigration spokesman Richard Marles says his absence from the NSC is a worrying sign that Turnbull is "prepared to engage in political payback at the expense of ... national security".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Laura Tingle is the AFR's political editor.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Manus Island nightmare: out of sight, out of mind</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ARNOLD ZABLE - Arnold Zable is a Melbourne writer and immediate past president of PEN Melbourne  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>894 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>22 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>19</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Instead of being imprisoned, deserving detainees should be granted <b>asylum</b> in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His name is Behrouz Boochani. He was born in Ilam city in west Iran on July 23, 1983. He graduated from Tarbiat Madares University in Tehran with a masters degree in political geography and geopolitics. He worked as a freelance journalist and for several Iranian newspapers. He published articles on politics and interviews with the Kurdish elite in Tehran.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Boochani's passions are human rights and the survival of Kurdish culture. With several colleagues, he founded, edited, published and wrote for the Kurdish magazine Werya, documenting Kurdish aspirations for cultural freedom. He wrote a paper advocating a federal system for Iran, protecting minority rights. The paper was delivered at a conference in France on his behalf after he was denied a passport to attend.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On February 17, 2013, officials from the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps ransacked the Werya offices in Ilam and arrested 11 of Boochani's colleagues. Six were imprisoned. Boochani was in Tehran that day and avoided arrest. On hearing of the arrests he published the information on the website Iranian Reporters, and the report was widely circulated. Boochani feared for his safety and went into hiding.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">During his three months in hiding, colleagues advised Boochani he was at risk of arrest and interrogation. As a member of the Kurdish minority in Iran, and of both the <span class="companylink">Kurdistan Democratic Party</span> and the National Union of Kurdish Students, he had experienced threats and was under surveillance. Having been interrogated and warned previously about his work promoting Kurdish culture and having signed an undertaking he would not continue this activity, he was in grave danger.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Boochani fled Iran on May 23, 2013. In July of that year he was among 75 <b>asylum</b> seekers intercepted by the Australian Navy en route to Australia. It was his second attempt at the crossing from Indonesia. On the first, the <b>boat</b> sank. He was rescued by Indonesian fishermen, and jailed on his return.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He immediately asked for <b>asylum</b> in Australia. He was detained on Christmas Island where he developed a deep bond with Reza Barati, a Kurdish-Iranian, also from Ilam. He was transferred to the Manus Island Immigration Detention Centre in late August 2013.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Boochani's predicament is both unique and emblematic of the horrors facing the men detained on Manus Island. There are currently about 900. Behrouz is among a group of about 100 who are refusing to be processed by PNG immigration officials, claiming the right to be processed for <b>asylum</b> in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He maintains his sanity between descents into depression with his continuing work as a writer and journalist, and his lifeline via various channels with a few advocates in Australia, including Castlemaine resident and <b>refugee</b> advocate Janet Galbraith. She is in touch with him daily, and has arranged for his writings to be translated from Farsi to English. His accounts of his incarceration on Manus Island read like a Kafka nightmare.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He continues to write articles for Kurdish publications from detention. He remains active as a human rights defender, and is recognised as such by the <span class="companylink">UN</span>. Boochani was one of several <b>asylum</b> seekers arrested and jailed without charge in Lorangau prison during a hunger strike early this year. He remained peaceful during this action.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He says his communications are monitored by Transfield, the company that operates the detention centre, and that as a result of his reportage and his human rights activity on behalf of fellow detainees, he has been threatened, searched and is subject to surveillance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The men detained on Manus Island have not been convicted of any crime. Yet they are imprisoned. Isolated. Kept out of sight and out of mind. Those who have been found to be refugees remain in the Lorangau transit centre. They have not been resettled. The men know they are the fall guys, punished as a means of deterring other would-be <b>asylum</b> seekers, as are the men, women and children detained on Nauru. They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. They have been palmed off, abandoned and all but forgotten. They are being driven mad.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The fate of Behrouz Boochani and his fellow detainees is Australia's responsibility. Instead of being imprisoned and harassed, he should be welcomed for his courageous stand for democracy and granted <b>asylum</b> in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Boochani has said that when he sailed for Australia, he was happy because "I knew Australia as a modern and democratic country. I thought that when I arrived in Australia they would accept me as a journalist. When I arrived at Christmas Island I said: 'I am a journalist', but I did not get any respectful response. I was wondering why it is not important for them that I am a writer. When they transferred me to Manus, I said to immigration: 'Don't exile me. Don't send me to Manus, I am a writer.' They did not care."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
<span class="companylink">PEN International</span>, a worldwide association of writers with members in more than 100 countries, has launched an international campaign this week on behalf of Boochani, in collaboration with <span class="companylink">Reporters Without Borders</span> and a range of human rights groups in Australia..</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The bias of the national broadcaster is one thing — we’ve all come to know and expect it — but in its rush to celebrate the demise of Tony Abbott, the ABC has ­simply lacked class. Aunty has barracked all along for its minister, Malcolm Turnbull, and we know it will be hoping his ascension will make Australia a land of milk and honey — well, the modern-day equivalent being a land of gay marriage with a price on carbon.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the national broadcaster is bound by law to be factual, objective and pluralistic. It is supposed to reflect the nation. It is not entitled to ignore the facts, deliberately distort them or foist a jaundiced view of history upon us.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If, as a personal friend and ­former chief of staff to Turnbull, I can recognise the achievements of Abbott’s leadership, the brutal ­injustice of the way it ended, and the political realities that will limit Turnbull’s policy options, then you would hope some of the ABC’s myriad of journalists might be able to do the same.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet in their mean-spirited ­triumphalism they could not even find it within their hearts, heads or sense of common decency to invite on to their main political programs commentators who might be ­capable of relaying or explaining Abbott’s achievements. After five days of Fran Kelly, Paul Bongiorno and Michelle Grattan on RN Breakfast they managed to wrap up the week with another couple of Abbott antagonists in Lenore ­Taylor (perhaps the most climate-focused journo in the gallery and one of the closest to Turnbull) and Mark Riley (he of the Channel Seven “shit happens” and glaring-response exclusive).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now we all know it is hard to find an Abbott acolyte in the press gallery but fairness, balance and the charter dictate that the ABC was obliged to find someone with a more realistic view. After all, according to the polls before the spill, 46 per cent of the country still preferred Abbott’s government over the alternative.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Insiders yesterday it was a similar story. Former Labor staffer Barrie Cassidy hosted anti-­Abbott cheerleader David Marr, welcomed back another anti-­Abbott agitator in George Megalogenis (he once linked the booing of Adam Goodes to Abbott) and included as the only nod to ­centrism, former Liberal staffer Nikki Savva, who just happens to have been the commentator who has led from the front in revealing and critiquing the role of Peta Credlin in Abbott’s downfall. Strangely enough, the political guest, ­Turnbull’s coup consigliere ­Arthur Sinodinos, was always ­likely to be kindest to Abbott.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott’s contributions of winning government, restoring border security, eliminating destructive taxes and securing three historic free-trade deals are the very foundations upon which a Turnbull government will be built. Yet for the ABC they seem to be inconvenient truths that prove them wrong, ruin their narrative and need to be erased from history.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But for sheer deception, nothing beats ABC TV’s news story from last Wednesday. It recast one of Abbott’s most impressive achievements into a major failing. “Australia’s largest neighbour appears to be welcoming the change of leadership in Canberra,” said the newsreader. He introduced a misleading story suggesting Indonesia wanted Abbott gone. It was based on the flimsiest of evidence — a newspaper editorial.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Good riddance,” said The ­Jakarta Post in a spray about as representative of Jakarta’s diplomacy as The Canberra Times is of Australia’s. You and I and the ABC know this to be the case; so why would they insult the intelligence of their audience and offend their charter obligations by pretending a newspaper speaks for a nation? We can only assume it is Abbott derangement syndrome.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It got worse. The ABC’s new Jakarta correspondence, Samantha Hawley, seemed to be starting where the last one left off (remember, George Roberts ran false reports that Australian sailors tortured <b>asylum</b>-seekers). Hawley kicked off Wednesday’s story by saying, “For Indonesia, it’s personal.” She ran four month-old pictures of a minor protest against Abbott when he was trying to convince Indonesia not to execute two Australian drug smugglers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The report noted Abbott’s first trip to Jakarta went “smoothly” (it was, in fact, a roaring success just weeks after his election). “But after that it was dramatically downhill,” declared Hawley, “amid revelations Australia had spied on the former president Susilo Bambang Yuhoyono and his wife.” The ABC did not mention these were revelations about spying under Kevin Rudd’s Labor government, or that they came via malicious leaks from US traitor Edward Snowden which were published by the ABC in cahoots withThe Guardian. The spying leak was a major test for Abbott’s diplomatic skills early and he handled it well, refusing to confirm or deny the allegations, refusing to blame his predecessor and committing to restoring the relationship — which he then did.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Hawley wasn’t done. “Over two years of Tony Abbott’s prime ministership there was barely a time that there wasn’t a diplomatic row with Indonesia — spying, <b>boat</b> turnbacks, the executions and beef — there was constant friction which led both nations at various times to withdraw their ambassadors.” Omitted again was how the beef issue was another diplomatic disaster delivered by Labor, and triggered by another ABC report, this time in cahoots with animal rights activists and online campaigners. Again it was a mess that Abbott repaired. And the <b>boat</b> turnbacks were Abbott’s policy triumph that Labor not only said was unachievable but would create “conflict” with Indonesia. Hawley even dared to prescribe a change in ­policy for the Australia-Indonesia relationship, when we all know the same successful Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop, will be in place to continue the same sensible strategy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Apart from being malicious and damaging to the national interest, this ABC report was simply wrong and ignorant. The point is that the handling of all these difficulties by Abbott and Bishop, together with the change of president in Jakarta, without any enduring harm to the relationship, with both ambassadors back in place and ministerial visits now resumed, can only be seen by objective eyes as astute ­diplomacy that has protected a vital relationship through enormous challenges. Yet the ABC deliberately and deceptively tries to create the opposite impression. I suppose we know why they would want to do that to Abbott, but why would they do it to Australia?The truth here is brutal. The ABC has done more damage to Australia’s relations with Indo­nesia than Abbott. And Abbott has been successful in repairing relations after Labor mistakes. He has also removed the constant irritant of the people-smuggling trade. Yet the ABC attempts to misinform the public. This is why some of us call it their ABC. Sure isn’t ours.</p>
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TAKE NOTE</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fashionistas will vie for a portion of the $16,000 prize pool on offer at the Newcastle Jockey Club's Fashions on the Field event on Saturday as part of Newcastle Spring Racing Ladies Day. Fashions on the Field usually draws more than 150 contestants from all over Australia. Prizes include an overseas holiday valued at $11,000, a golf package and a variety of gift vouchers. The event is in the Pavilion, hosted by NBN newsreader Natasha Beyersdorf. Entrants can register on the day from noon outside the Pavilion. Judging criteria will be available at njc.com.au.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Roald Dahl Festival is at The Playhouse, September 21 to 26, a full program of short performances based on everyone's favourite Dahl tales. The festival, presented by Hunter Drama, is a chance to celebrate Dahl's words, language and imagination. Visit civictheatrenewcastle.com.au for full program and session times.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SAVE THE DATE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If you love a bit of extreme 4x4 offroad racing, the Ultra4 King of the Hunter is at Milbrodale, Hunter Valley, September 25-27. Visit ultra4racing.com.au to find out more.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Swansea Springtime by the Lake returns on Saturday, September 26 with live music, classic car and <b>boat</b> displays, amusement rides and kids' activities. The event on the Swansea Channel foreshore from 10am to 3pm aims to promote all that Swansea has to offer.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SATURDAY</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Toranafest 2015 Torana enthusiasts descend on Maitland Showground this weekend for Toranafest 2015, including the Toranafest Cruise on Saturday night and a meet and greet barbecue, and the usual show and shine on Sunday. Proceeds will go to Ronald McDonald House Newcastle, Riding for the Disabled and Dog Rescue Newcastle. Visit toranafest.com.au.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Charity Walk This walk, raising much-needed funds and awareness for sufferers of Huntingtons disease, begins at Speers Point Park at 10am. Register for $30 at huntingtonsnsw.org.au. Registration includes a T-shirt and barbecue. There will also be raffle prizes up for grabs on the day. If you would like to make a donation, visit huntingtonsnsw.secure.force.com/CauseiCan/Fundraise/Walk4Hope_SpeersPoint/LeeMcDonaldraisingawarenessforHuntingtons.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Peter Pan in Pacific Park Hunter Drama presents a performance about the boy who never grew up, Peter Pan, at Pacific Park, Newcastle East on Saturday and Sunday from 7.30pm.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Jesmond Early Learning Centre 30th Anniversary Jesmond Early Learning Centre, on Mordue Parade, is hosting an open day from 10am to 2pm. There will be clowns, a jumping castle, face- painting, a sausage sizzle and cake stalls.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Clans on the Coast Celebrate Celtic culture with some highland dancing, a caber toss, bagpipe bands and medieval battle re-enactments. Tomaree Sports Ground at Nelson Bay is set to come alive - 8.30am to 4.30pm - with market stalls, singing groups, highland games and a fashion parade for dogs dressed as Scotsmen. Tickets $15 adults, $10 pensioners, under-18 free.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Family Fun Fest - Richmond Vale Railway Museum On Saturday and Sunday, there will be steam-train rides, miniature train rides, carnival rides, market stalls and children's activities 10am to 4pm at Richmond Vale Railway Museum. Sausage sizzle, or you can bring your own picnic lunch. $16 adults, $7.50 children 5 to 15, under-5 free. All other rides incur additional fees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Grumpy Old Men Camyr Allyn Cellar Door, East Gresford, present the ever popular Grumpy Old Men - aka Erle and Norm - as they play songs from John Williamson, John Denver and The Eagles on Saturday from 1pm to 4pm.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Maitland Garden Ramble 2015 On Saturday and Sunday, the 32nd annual ramble will take in some of the most beautiful gardens in the Maitland district. Organised by Maitland Black and White Committee, the ramble costs $5 to visit an individual garden, or $30 to visit all of them. The gardens are open from 10am to 4pm. Call 4931 2800 to find out more.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dinosaur Disco Join local author Deborah Kelly as she celebrates the launch of her fun picture book Dinosaur Disco from 1.30pm to 2.30pm at Belmont Library. Enjoy a reading followed by a mini disco. Books will be available for purchase and signing. To find out more, call 4945 4329. Bookings are essential.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Plattsburg Public School 150th Anniversary Spring Fair Cnr Ranclaud and Boscawen streets, Wallsend, from 9am to 2pm.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Beyond by Circa This alternative circus invites you to step over the line between human and animal, madness and sanity, logic and dream at Civic Theatre. Tickets from the box office, 4929 1977.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">No One Cares About Your Cat Tantrum Youth Arts presents this performance that questions why, when we are more socially networked than ever, we've never felt more alone. The final performance at The Playhouse at 8pm. Tickets 4929 1977.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SUNDAY</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Vacy Country Carnival The annual fair offers something for everyone - including the family dog - with the famous jack russell and dachshund races on again. 9am-3pm on Gresford Road, Vacy. Entry is free.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For the Love of Art Get to know Lake Macquarie Art Gallery's collection and current exhibitions through informal talks by artists and curators in a casual and friendly environment. Refreshments included. Third Sunday of every month. Bookings essential on 4965 8260. Members $10, non-members $15.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Float Away with Bach The Sisters of Mercy Convent Chapel in Singleton hosts this music event featuring Newcastle-based musicians Callum Close and Miranda Arrighi performing works by Bach and his contemporaries from 2pm. Tickets include afternoon tea, $25 adults, $5 for school students.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Movie Magic Cardiff Northlakes Brass presents this fundraising concert on Sunday. They will perform melodies and themes from well-known movies such as The Man From Snowy River, The Empire Strikes Back, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Magnificent 7 and Braveheart, 2pm to 4.15pm at Lake Macquarie Performing Arts Centre, Warners Bay. Tickets $20.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Milbrodale Family Fun Day Milbrodale Public School is hosting its annual family fun day from 9am to 2pm. Visitors will be entertained by country music singer Jessie Read, there will be whip-cracking lessons, a playdough and craft corner for the kids, and the inaugural Milbrodale Ultimate Man Challenge. Competitors will navigate a challenging course that will test their skills in farming, carpentry, housekeeping and sport. Timed heats start at 10.30am and the final race will be held at noon.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">MARKETS</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hunt & Gather Markets Saturday, Pacific Park, Newcastle East, from 9am to 2pm.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Broadmeadow Sundays Handmade Market Sunday, 9am to 2pm, at PCYC Broadmeadow, cnr of Young Road and Melbourne Street.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sacred Tree Markets Sunday, corner of Station Street and New England Highway, Branxton, from 9am to 2pm.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Entrance Farmers' & Makers' Market Saturday, from 8am to 1pm, Memorial Park, The Entrance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Healing Haven Saturday, Dudley Public School, 9am to 2pm.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hamilton Clocktower Markets Saturday at James Street Plaza, Beaumont Street, Hamilton, from 9am to 2pm.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Adamstown Lions' Markets Sunday, from 8am to 1pm. Corner of Glebe and Brunker roads, Adamstown.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Raymond Terrace Spring Markets and Pets Day Saturday, Riverside Park, Raymond Terrace, 9am to 2pm. Locally made products, pet accessories, dog obedience displays, best groomed dog, best dog trick and best pet photo competition.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hunter Wine Country Markets Saturday, De Bortoli Winery, Pokolbin, from 9am.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Newcastle City Farmers' Market Sunday, from 8am to 1pm, at Newcastle Showground.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ART</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Art Systems Wickham Untitled by Andy Devine and James Murphy, until August 23.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Back To Back Galleries The Last Farewell: Von Bertouch Galleries Revisited, until September 27.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Forsight Gallery Callum Docherty - Flux, ends September 27.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Gallery 139 Paints Like Bill, until October 3.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery Lore & Order, until October 11; Your Collection: Lake Life, until October 11; Click: Schools In Focus, until October 11.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Lock Up Hidden Nature by Brett McMahon, ends Sunday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Lovett Gallery (Newcastle Library) A Gift To The City: The Roland Pope Collection, ends November 1.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Maitland Regional Art Gallery Power + Colour: Pat Corrigan Indigenous Collection, ends Sunday; ARTEXPRESS, until November 1; Julie Ryder: Fertile Ground, ends Sunday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre The Journey: Rod Bathgate and Jean Davies, opens Saturday until November 1.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Newcastle Art Gallery John Kaldor Family Collection Artist Room #2 - Bill Viola, until November 1; Kirsten Coelho - In the Falling Light, until November 15; Anne Ferran - Shadow Land, until November 15.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Newcastle Art Space Newcastle Emerging Artist Prize 2015, ends September 27.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Timeless Textiles Reflections On The Past by Els Van Baarle, until October 11.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">University Gallery Signature - Celebrating Our Artist Graduates, opens September 23 and continues until November 7.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">MUSIC</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bar Petite Saturday, Dean Kyrwood. Sunday, Jumbo Reilly.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Belmont 16s Saturday, Bella. Sunday, Firewall. Sunday, Bloom.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Cambridge Hotel Saturday, British India, Maids, Auxfire. Sunday, Howard Sherman.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Caves Beachside Hotel Saturday, Steve Boyd. Sunday, Adam Eckersley Band, Brooke McClymont, Arley Black.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Exchange Hotel Saturday, GenR8.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Grain Store Saturday, JJ King.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Grand Junction Hotel Saturday, Crooning Wankstains. Sunday, Method.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Harrigan's Pokolbin Saturday, Kevin O'Hara, Purple Rain. Sunday, Greg Bryce.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Honeysuckle Hotel Saturday, Hummingbirds. Sunday, Love That Hat.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Junction Hotel Saturday, Troy Kemp.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Kent Hotel Saturday, Overload. Sunday, Blues Bombers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">King Street Hotel Saturday, K-Rock, DJ Lowblow, Dr Laverty, Pure Blonde, Yogi, Carson Dodd, Clubrat DJs, Snectar, Boogie, Paperfox. Sunday, Sundae Fundaze After Party feat. Monday Morning, Baltah, Jaytee.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Lambton Park Hotel Saturday, The Remedy. Sunday, Pat Capocci.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Lass O'Gowrie Saturday, Vanderaa, Dusty Boots, Alex Guthrie. Sunday, Pucko, ICA, Lonesome and Earnest, 1 Irection, Swami Shepherds.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Lizotte's Newcastle Saturday, Bob Corbett Band. Sunday, Mikelangelo - Cave-Waits-Cohen.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Merewether Surfhouse Sunday, Kylie Jane, Howard Shearman.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Murray's Brewery Sunday, Aaron Hood.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nelson Bay Diggers Saturday, 2GoodReasons. Sunday, Holly Wilson.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Pippis At The Point Saturday, Deuce. Sunday, Matt McLaren.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Prince of Wales Saturday, Jake Davey. Sunday, Mike Horbacz, AdzDrumz.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Queens Wharf Hotel Saturday, Jake Davey, Matteo Verde. Sunday, Kylie Jane, Matt Meler, Perry Carter.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Stag and Hunter Hotel Saturday, Eddie Boyd and The Phatapillars.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sydney Junction Hotel Saturday, Alias. Sunday, Hornet.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Warners At The Bay Saturday, The Cruisers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Wickham Park Saturday, Mick n Josh, The Rockabilly Women. Sunday, John Larder, Justin Ngariki & The Dastardly Bastards.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">MOVIES</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">5 Flights Up (PG) A long-time married couple are overwhelmed by issues. Stars Diane Keaton and Morgan Freeman.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A Walk In The Woods (M) Travel writer Bill Bryson returns to the US, to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends. (Avoca)</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Andre Rieu's 2015 Maastricht Concert (E) The world's most popular classical music artist, Andre Rieu's 2015 Maastricht Concert returns for encore screenings. (Avoca)</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ant-Man (PG) Armed with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, con-man Scott Lang must embrace his inner-hero.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Blinky Bill The Movie (PG) Blinky Bill, is a little koala, with a big imagination. An adventurer at heart, he dreams of leaving the little town of Green Patch and following his missing father's footsteps.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Far From Men (M) In 1950s Algeria, a schoolteacher (Viggo Mortensen) agrees to deliver an admitted murderer (Reda Kateb) to a French court for trial. (Avoca)</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Gift (M) Simon (Jason Bateman) and Robyn (Rebecca Hall) are a young married couple whose life descends into a harrowing tailspin after a chance encounter with Gordo (Joel Edgerton), an initially unrecognised acquaintance from Simon's high school.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last Cab To Darwin (M) Told he doesn't have long to live, loner Rex drives through the outback to Darwin to die on his own terms.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (M) In the early 1960s, CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB operative Illya Kuryakin join against a mysterious criminal organisation. Directed by Guy Ritchie.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Max (PG) A dog that helped US Marines in Afghanistan returns to the US and is adopted by his handler's family after suffering a traumatic experience. (Regal)</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (M) The second instalment of the Maze Runner hits cinemas. The maze was just the beginning. Now they're out, the Gladers are challenged with multiple landscapes that are even more dangerous.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Holmes (M) An aged, retired Sherlock Holmes looks back on his life. Stars Ian McKellen and Laura Linney. (Regal)</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Oddball (G) Allan "Swampy" Marsh convinces local authorities to allow Oddball, his Maremma dog, to protect a colony of little penguins from wild cats and dogs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Pan (PG) The story of an orphan spirited away to the magical Neverland. There, he finds fun, danger and ultimately his destiny - to become Peter Pan.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">People Places Things (M) At Will Henry's twin girls' fifth birthday party, his life is turned upside down when he walks in on their mother and his longtime girlfriend with their friend Gary. Stars Jemaine Clement. (Avoca)</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Pixels (PG) Aliens misinterpret video-feeds of classic arcade games as a declaration of war and attack Earth, using the games for tactics. A team of old-school arcaders try to save the planet.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ricki And The Flash (PG) Meryl Streep stars as a guitar heroine who gave up everything for rock'n'roll stardom. (Majestic)</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sicario (MA15+) In the lawless border area stretching between the U.S. and Mexico, an idealistic FBI agent (Emily Blunt) is enlisted by an elite government task force official (Josh Brolin) to aid in the escalating war against drugs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Straight Outta Compton (MA15+) The rise and fall of hip-hop legends N.W.A. In the 1980s, the streets of Compton, California, were some of the most dangerous in the US. Five young men translated their experiences into brutally honest music gave a voice to a silenced generation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Transporter Refueled (CTC) Former special-ops mercenary Frank Martin (Ed Skrein) is engaged to orchestrate a bank heist.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Two By Two (PG) A flood is coming, and the animals are lining up for the ark, two by two. A couple of creatures miss the <b>boat</b> and are faced with the daunting task of staying afloat. (Hoyts)</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Vacation (MA15+) The fifth in National Lampoon's Vacation series, Rusty Griswold takes his family to Walley World. Stars Ed Helms, Christina Applegate, Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">War Room (PG) Tony and Elizabeth seemingly have it all. In reality, their marriage is a war zone, their daughter collateral damage.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What We Did On Our Holiday (M) Doug and Abi take their kids on a family vacation. Surrounded by relatives, the kids innocently reveal the ins and outs of their family life and many intimate details about their parents. (Lake Cinema)</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Wild Tales (MA15+) Inequality, injustice and the demands of the world we live in cause stress and depression for many people. Some of them, however, explode. This is a movie about those people. (Regal)</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Women He's Undressed (PG) Documentary directed by Gillian Armstrong about the Golden Age of Hollywood and the life of the Australian costume designer and Oscar winner Orry-Kelly. (Regal)</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Woman In Gold (M) Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish <b>refugee</b>, takes on the Austrian government to recover artwork. Stars Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds. (Lake Cinema)</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">WINNERS</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The winners of the Russian Nation Ballet are Carolyn Davies from Speers Point, Sheree Martin from Waratah, and Brenda Campbell from Charlestown.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Planner compiled by Anita Beaumont and Jade Lazarevic. Email weekend music, event and market listings to h2planner@theherald.com.au.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PICK OF THE WEEK</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">RIGHT WINE FOR CHILLI DOGS</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Budfest at Briar festival is an opportunity to celebrate budburst, and to highlight that enjoying wine is about simple pleasures. Winemaker Gywn Olsen is a firm believer that "a good wine doesn't always need candles, white tablecloths and Wagyu beef, but can be equally enjoyable with your favourite takeaway". Which is why Briar Ridge, in Mount View, recruited the guys from Ben and Harry's (pictured) from the Cooks Hill Surf Club to prepare a selection of takeaway favourites such as a yellow chicken curry and chilli dogs to go with some of the vineyard's wines on Saturday. Bring along a picnic rug and settle in for an afternoon of music, food and wine from 11am until 4pm.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">FREEBIE OF THE WEEK</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">RIGHT WINE FOR CHILLI DOGS</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SKIN SYSTEM</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Looking for a skin pick-me-up? Newa by Homedics is a new skin rejuvenation system which works to rebuild collagen, reduce wrinkles, tighten and lift the skin. Described as an alternative to Botox, the non-invasive system works together with a specially formulated gel which helps to optimise the delivery of heat deep beneath the skin's surface, resulting in healthier, firmer and more radiant-looking skin. Newa is available in Myer, Shaver Shop and Harvey Norman. Weekender has one Newa by Homedics prize pack to give away valued at $499. To enter, send the word "Newa" to weekenderfreebies@theherald.com.au or text the word "Newa" to 0427 369 610, include your name, address and phone number. Entries close at 9am on Wednesday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">FLICK OF THE WEEK</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">EVEREST (M)</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On the morning of May 10, 1996, climbers from two expeditions start their final ascent towards the summit of Mount Everest. With little warning, a violent storm strikes, engulfing the adventurers in one of the fiercest blizzards ever encountered by man. Challenged by the harshest conditions, the teams endure blistering winds and freezing temperatures in an epic battle to survive against nearly impossible odds. Stars Josh Brolin, Robin Wright, Sam Worthington, Keira Knightley and Jake Gyllenhaal.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Students moved to give them hope</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Michael Koziol  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>529 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>19 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>11</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Refugee</b> crisis - Australians volunteer to help</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For some Australians, the <b>refugee</b> crisis in Europe is new. The tragedy of it all came suddenly and forcefully - three-year-old Aylan Kurdi lying dead on the beach - as though families had not been fleeing this war for years.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But they had, as the people of Lesbos know. The Greek island, just a 45 minute <b>boat</b> journey from the coast of Turkey, is the landing place for thousands of Syrians seeking refuge.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was to this pit stop that Shaan Ali, a 25-year-old law student from Melbourne, was drawn three weeks ago. He had completed an exchange in Geneva and spent two months travelling Europe. Just as the haunting image of Aylan seemed to provoke so much rethinking around the world, so too did a photograph motivate Ali to action.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I saw a photo on <span class="companylink">Facebook</span> of a mother holding her baby above the water as she was drowning," he says. "The image just moved me to the point where I didn't have any other option but to cancel my plans and fly here."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He spoke via a poor Skype connection from Molyvos, on the north side of the island. It is 10 kilometres from Turkey, less than an hour's journey if the <b>boat</b>'s engines are working properly.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Syrians who arrive on Lesbos may have been travelling for weeks. From Molyvos, they must get to the south-eastern port of Mytilene, where they are registered, photographed, fingerprinted and issued papers. Then it is a ferry across to Athens and onward into Europe. For most, Germany is the ultimate goal. "They've heard that it's good there," Ali says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On his first day on the island, Ali met an injured elderly woman. She had made it across the water with three or four cracked ribs. Ali drove her to the hospital in Mytilene.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ali works with Melinda McRostie, another Australian, who has lived on Lesbos for 45 years. She runs a harbourside restaurant in Molyvos called The Captain's Table and for months she has used land behind the restaurant as a campsite for refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In less than two weeks, Ali raised $15,000 for supplies through an online GoFundMe campaign. Other volunteers have done likewise, or solicited large corporate donations.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ali describes the Australian government's promise to resettle 12,000 Syrian refugees as "wonderful".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He has already missed his scheduled flight back to North Melbourne, vowing to stay on Lesbos until early next month. Last weekend he was joined by his 23-year-old friend Sophie Parr, also a Melbourne law student, donating her time while on exchange in Amsterdam.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Thursday she stands at a bus stop in Molyvos directing people to food and water. "There's just so many people, it's crazy," Ms Parr says. As we speak, men and women approach her asking questions, which she answers as best she can in English and pigeon Arabic.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Parr estimates the volunteers moved about 1300 people towards Mytilene on Wednesday, while another 1000 slept on the streets of Sykaminia.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>REFUSE REFUGE?</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>IAN HENSCHKE  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>814 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>19 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SAWeekend</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia’s about to take 12,000 refugees from the Syrian Iraq crisis. What do you think? One recent online poll has almost 30,000 responses. The majority support the move but about one in four say they don’t want a single <b>refugee</b> from this conflict coming here. Queensland Federal Nationals MP George Christensen told parliament: “They either take a job an Australian can do or they go on the dole.” He’s right. Some of them may take jobs from Australians. Some may end up on the dole. But others may start their own business and create jobs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Our kitchen has just been tiled by some Hazari tilers. They work for a man called Enayat. He came here after 9/11 sparked “the war on terror” 14 years ago. He fled Afghanistan, then Iraq, flew to Indonesia and got a <b>boat</b> to Australia. He was locked up in Woomera detention centre and, after first being knocked back, gained entry. Now in his thirties, he’s running a booming business employing others like himself.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I got his number after we had to rip up a local tiler’s faulty work. I needed a good tradesperson and asked Chris Tillett, from the stone masonry company that built the State War Memorial and Parliament House, if he knew one. He recommended Enayat, who’d worked for him before going out on his own.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I’ve since discovered he was the tiler used by the late David Cheney, an Adelaide heritage-style builder renowned for his attention to detail. Enayat loves his new homeland and is working flat out six and seven days a week with his Hazari employees to renovate it. He says “Australia is a paradise”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Does one example prove anything? No. But there are plenty more. Wolf Blass’s family lost everything they owned in 1950. The East German communists took their villa, and their wine and spirit company. He became a penniless political <b>refugee</b> and migrated to Australia. Three years after coming here he took up citizenship and says: “I’m an Aussie through and through.” He helped create South Australia’s billion dollar export wine industry from a valley settled by German speaking religious refugees fleeing Prussian persecution in the 1840s. I should declare I’m one of their descendants.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If you listen to those who don’t want refugees they’ll often say they don’t fit in to the Australian culture. But what’s more Aussie than a meat pie and what’s more South Australian than a floater?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The winner of the 2015 inaugural pie floater contest at the Royal Show is Vili Milisits. Vili saw his family’s property taken by the Hungarian communists. The Milisits family fled along with 900,000 others in 1956. They were part of the first post-war <b>refugee</b> crisis. He says back then “no one wanted us”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After time in a camp they came to Adelaide in 1958. Today Vili employs 200 South Australians and another 70 people interstate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He’s now exporting Australia’s pie-eating culture to the world. But I leave the best <b>refugee</b> story until last.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I’ve just read Jill Margo’s biography of Frank Lowy, A Second Life. It traces his life from childhood in Slovakia in the early 1930s to the present. It describes how he survived the Holocaust by hiding out in Hungary during the war. His father was beaten to death by the Nazis in Auschwitz.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In 1946, 15-year-old Frank boarded a <b>boat</b> to Palestine, was captured by the British and locked up in a detention centre in Cyprus. He eventually migrated to Australia via Israel in 1952.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He began by delivering smallgoods, soon owned a deli and then a shopping centre. Today the stock exchange-listed shopping centre company he founded has assets worth almost $60 billion.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It’s a global empire with more than 100 shopping malls in Australia, NZ, UK and the US. Five years ago, at 80, Frank Lowy was declared the wealthiest person in Australia. Not long after that he was named the number one philanthropist in the nation. He and his family have given away hundreds of millions of dollars.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Lowy, Blass, Milisits and the next generation like Enayat are all proud Australians. In many ways they’re more passionate about their adopted home than those of us born here.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And while we’ve agreed to take 12,000 <b>asylum</b> seekers, Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel has announced it will take 800,000 over the next year. She says Germany is now a country associated with hope and “this is something to cherish when you look back at our history”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I’m sure Wolf Blass, Frank Lowy and many more would agree.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hear Ian Henschke on ABC radio 891 weekdays from 9am-11am. Follow him on <span class="companylink">Twitter</span> @IanHenschke</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Big shift in power base</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>480 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>19 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Hobart Mercury</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>MRCURY</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Hobart</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>34</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">IF this was a landmark week in national politics, the same can said for next week in a Tasmanian context.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Eric Abetz has been the most powerful politician in the state under an Abbott Government.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He has enjoyed the ear and loyalty of the (now) former prime minister and demanded and exerted considerable influence over fellow politicians across all levels of government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When Abbott walked solemnly into the party room from Monday night’s vote, who was by his side? Abetz.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He also has run a tight ship in Tasmania. When our Federal Liberal MPs have spoken, it has largely been in support of Abbott.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There have been very few leaks or rocking of the <b>boat</b>. Disunity apparent elsewhere has been all but absent in Tasmania.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Senator Richard Colbeck was reportedly the sole Tasmanian who voted for Turnbull in the spill.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So what now?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abetz is a survivor in the truest sense of the word and may well emerge unscathed from Sunday’s cabinet reshuffle under new PM Malcolm Turnbull.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But this appears increasingly unlikely.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull and Abetz have history and clear and likely unreconcilable ideological differences, and Turnbull will surely be keen to put his own stamp on the new ministry, injecting some new blood while disposing of Abbott’s fiercest supporters.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abetz also yesterday faced a scathing assessment of his record as Employment Minister in the national press.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So from this week we face a significant shift in the power dynamic of the Tasmanian Federal Liberal Party.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The key will be to ensure the state’s interests are not lost in the process. In recent times, Tasmania has benefited from the close relationship with Abbott. It was rewarded for its support with an extension to the Tasmanian Freight Equalisation Scheme worth $203 million over four years and $60 million towards irrigation schemes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Additionally, when protests greeted Treasurer Joe Hockey over the John L Groves rehabilitation centre, Mr Abbott was quick to find the $10 million funding.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And despite concerns about the loss of $16 million in Cadbury funding, the money was never really going anywhere except Tasmania; the outcry from the local loyalists would simply have been too high.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Colbeck, who is highly thought of as parliamentary secretary to the Minister for Agriculture, will be a key player if Abetz goes, and has been widely tipped to gain a ministry.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull’s elevation also may be a positive for the Hodgman Government, which it could be argued has a policy platform more closely aligned with a progressive Turnbull agenda, something certainly displayed by the Hodgman and Baird governments in the recent <b>asylum</b> seekers discussions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To date Abetz has said all the right things. He has not resigned, pledged support for the new PM and said simply: “The king is dead, long live the king.” But is it enough?Tomorrow, we find out</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Open door holds the key to prosperity</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>George Megalogenis   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Experience shows us that Australia’s migration anxiety is misplaced</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the 21st century Australia staged one of the great recoveries in human history: from a nation to be pitied to one that is considered the envy of the world. No other economy has had a comparable winning streak to ours, and at a time of global instability. Twenty-four years have passed since our last deep recession, and since we were subjected to the taunt from Singapore’s president Lee Kuan Yew that Australia risked becoming the “poor white trash of Asia”.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet we no longer feel comfortable in our prosperous skins. There is a palpable fear in the community that our luck will soon run out and that we will revert to our former state of mediocrity: a people to be ridiculed for wasting their fortune.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Liberal Party pollster Mark Textor describes the surly public mood as a form of performance anxiety. “Australians realise they have been in a privileged position but feel stressed about it,” he says. “When you are sitting on an economic pedestal, you ask yourself, ‘How do I maintain this?’ The only way is down.” We have been here before. These first surprising, unsettling decades of the new millennium have brought Australians back to the position they enjoyed as the world’s richest people in the 19th century. For the second time, an entire generation of Australians has been raised with no experience of the economic or social hardship currently felt in the US or Europe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Once again, our society reflects the best of the world back to it. In the 1870s, when Australia enjoyed its greatest advantage in living standards over the US and Britain, the population split almost 50-50 between migrants and local-born.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Today, almost half the population can be counted as first or second-generation migrants — 28 per cent were born overseas and another 20 per cent have at least one parent who was a migrant.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The question of who we are has never been more fascinating, or confronting, and seldom have we been less able to discuss it. Most of us react to the subject of national identity as we do to fingernails on the blackboard.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Debate has polarised to the point where one Australia is made deliberately unrecognisable to the other. We are either irredeemably racist or the greatest people on earth. To those in the former camp it is impossible to compute Australia’s success. To those in the latter, it is un-Australian to even acknowledge the violent dispossession of the people here before us, or the revolving door of xenophobia that greets new arrivals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In our most recent period of poor performance, in the 1970s, Australia was one of the few nations to suffer rates of unemployment and inflation above 10 per cent. We had the hardest landing of any country in the global depression of the 1890s, and in the Depression of the 1930s endured the humiliation of an austerity program imposed by the <span class="companylink">Bank of England</span>. The cuts to wages and pensions back then were as severe as the Greeks are being forced to accept today.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Our national contradictions mirror the extended booms and busts of the economy. We are a confident people who can’t articulate what it is to be Australian beyond the cliches of mateship and the fair go; an affluent people pretending to be battlers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The thread that connects the past to the present and future is the ongoing conversation between those who came to these shores and those who received them. This dialogue has always been central to the national story but it is too often reduced to its social dimensions only. The economic side of the equation is rarely considered, even though Australians would acknowledge they obsess about economics more than most people. Our blindness in this respect is a curious national trait. Americans view migration as essential to their nationhood, recognising that migrants literally made the US. Australians are more likely to define the benefits of migration in cultural terms — the food.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We worry that the new arrival will not become “Australian”, while the Americans never doubt that the migrant will embrace their identity.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Our periods of strong migration have been our most successful; our busts are distinguished by the closing of our doors, through policies of racial selection and import protection. This is not to say that the new arrival is somehow superior to the local but rather that Australia’s least productive and most divisive eras have been those when migration was at its lowest ebb — in the early decades of convict settlement and in the half-century-long stagnation of White Australia, from the 1890s until the end of World War II.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Our present economic winning streak will end, as streaks always do, and there is much to be genuinely concerned about. Property prices in Sydney and Melbourne have reached levels that past experience says will lead to a crash. National politics has surrendered to its own cynicism, and China, the country that helped give Australia its extra decade of good times, can no longer be relied on to prop up the global economy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Here is the critical challenge for Australia: whenever the next shock comes, will we revert to our old sheltered, internationally maligned self and endure another lost decade like the 70s or, worse, the isolation of White Australia? Or can we learn something from how we reacted to previous setbacks and build on the success of our longest boom?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Migration is the greatest compliment that can be paid to a nation, and for only the second time in history a significant share of skilled arrivals are choosing Australia over the US. The changes these people will bring to the nation will be more profound than those brought by the postwar waves from southern Europe and Southeast Asia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Our record of settling large numbers of people from around the world is unsurpassed. Australia’s second chance began with the postwar migration program, which sought to re-create through government planning the diversity achieved through the happy circumstance of the gold rushes a century earlier.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Within a generation it would turn the Australia John Curtin described during the war as “a British land of one race and one tongue” into a European country of many races and mother tongues.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor MP Arthur Calwell, who became the nation’s first immigration minister, told Ben Chifley in 1944 that he was determined to create a “heterogeneous society”. “A society,” he wrote to the then treasurer, “where Irishness and Roman Catholicism would be as acceptable as Englishness and Protestantism; where an Italian background would be as acceptable as a Greek, a Dutch or any other.” Calwell’s public argument for European migration was ingenious. It took the nation’s perpetual fear of foreign invasion and re­framed it. Australia would need foreigners to guard against invasion, he told parliament on August 2, 1945, in the dying days of the war in the Pacific.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We may have only (the) next 25 years in which to make the best possible use of our second chance to survive. Our first requirement is additional population. We need it for reasons of defence and for the fullest expansion of our economy. We can increase our 7,000,000 by an increased birthrate and by a policy of planned immigration within the limits of our existing legislation.” War, depression and racial selection had prematurely aged the nation. In 1947, there were 120,000 fewer boys and girls aged 10 to 24 years than there had been just 10 years earlier in 1937. Left unchecked, this shortfall would have choked an Australian reconstruction as the nation ran out of workers. There were also 110,000 fewer migrants living in Australia in 1947 than there had been at Federation, during which time the population had doubled from 3.774 million to 7.579 million.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Labor government of Chifley had to counter trade union resistance to the entry of Europe’s displaced youth. The Liberal opposition, led by Robert Menzies, had an easier case to make because its constituency of returned servicemen and middle-class professionals was more open to migration than the workingman.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Diggers in particular were returning home with a sense of kinship with the Europeans who had resisted the Nazis. The Greeks were a particular favourite, having sheltered Australian troops.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the 1946 election, held before the effects of the postwar program were felt, voters might have detected these subtle differences in the campaign launch speeches of the two leaders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Chifley kept up the appearance of a British bias in the program, even though the first wave of postwar migrants would contain more Italians and Germans than English and Scots.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Today Australia has become the great bastion of the British-speaking race south of the equator,” the prime minister said. “Strategically and economically, our country has assumed a position in the Pacific on behalf of the <span class="companylink">British Commonwealth</span> of nations of such importance that development and responsibility go hand in hand.” Menzies criticised the government for not moving quickly enough to attract migrants. “It (Labor) has adopted the view that immigration is undesirable so long as we have local problems of an industrial and economic kind to solve. To this we retort that if we wait for economic perfection before building up our population we shall someday find that our lack of population has invited an attack in which our entire economy will be destroyed. Every one of us in this country is either a migrant himself or the descendant of one. We therefore, of all people, should be prepared to welcome into our community all those who can by their work and citizenship contribute to the strength of this land.” Menzies came across as the more optimistic leader, but the people stuck with the party that had seen them through the war. Labor was re-elected in September 1946 with 43 of the 75 seats in parliament — six fewer than the Curtin landslide, but with a largely unchanged primary vote of 49.7 per cent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By its very nature, the first wave of the postwar program would seek migrants who had been displaced by conflict. There was a pressing need to provide assistance to the Jewish refugees who had survived the Holocaust, but this immediately hit the pothole of domestic Australian prejudice.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We are not compelled to accept the unwanted of the world at the dictate of the United Nations or anyone else,” Henry “Jo” Gullett, the Liberal member for the Melbourne electorate of Henty, told parliament in November 1946, just two months after the election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Neither should Australia be the dumping ground for people whom Europe itself, in the course of 2000 years, has not been able to absorb. I am amazed that a Labor government, of all governments, should sponsor the kind of immigration that is going on at the present time. I am not anti-Semitic. Indeed, very few Australians are.” Yet he went on to describe “many of the Jews who came to Australia in the year before the war and since the outbreak of the war” as “notorious exploiters of labour. They set up sweatshops, and in the records of the industrial courts one may read their names. They have cornered houses and evaded income tax.” The most vocal opponent of Jewish migration on the Left was Jack Lang, former NSW premier and now independent member for the Sydney electorate of Reid. He claimed that wealthy Jews were involved in a “<b>refugee</b> racket”. They used their money to gain valuable berths on migrant ships at the expense of humble British migrants. “But, as soon as anybody criticises this immigration preference, those in authority burst into tears for the poor victims of fascism. They may have been the victims of fascism. Everybody knows that there are millions and millions of victims of fascism. But only a very small proportion of those victims are wealthy and have powerful friends. Why is this government interested in these victims who are wealthy and who have powerful friends?” Gullett and Lang were minority voices in parliament. In the community, the sentiment was mixed. The NSW president of the RSL, Ken Bolton, was the dial-a-quote of his day, ready with a quick put-down of the Jew who would secure a property ahead of a returned Digger. The president of the Australian Natives Association, Joseph Lynch, said he was “seriously concerned that Australia was to be made a tip for European refuse”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The parochial media reverted to type. The Jewish refugees became the latest cartoonish enemy of social cohesion, replacing the Italian migrants of the 20s, who had replaced the Irish Australians of the conscription debates, who had replaced the Chinese Diggers, who had replaced the Irish orphan girls. When a Dutch-flagged ship carrying Jewish refugees was preparing to sail from Shanghai to Sydney, the capital-city tabloids informed their readers, without any evidence, that 3000 people were coming on three boats. The correct figure was 700 on one <b>boat</b>, and Calwell demanded a retraction from Sydney’s Daily Telegraph and Melbourne’s Sun News-Pictorial. But the media wasn’t finished yet. When the <b>boat</b> docked on March 16, 1947, The Courier-Mail declared: “700 Jews arrive, bring expensive furs and jewels”. The refugees carried “thousands of pounds’ worth of personal belongings, including jewels, furs, and expensive cameras”. The cameras were rated more newsworthy than the gas chambers they had escaped.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At these tipping points in a migration debate, leaders can turn a media scare into a deep-seated community prejudice. Australia was more than 90 per cent local-born, of essentially Anglo-Celtic stock, and the public was poised between re-engagement with the world and wariness of the damaged people who were coming from Europe. Opinion polls were in their infancy, so the question of whether Australia was prepared for Jewish migration was not put. But the answer would soon be in the affirmative as a Labor government and Liberal opposition argued for the door to be open.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Calwell took on every critic, with backing from Menzies, who reaffirmed his party’s support for Jewish migration. Between them Calwell and Menzies encouraged community leaders — of whom the most prominent was Melbourne’s Catholic archbishop Daniel Mannix — to fly the flag for openness.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As the first migrant victims of discrimination in Australia, Cath­olics were a valuable ally for the Jewish refugees. In an editorial published in February 1947, TheCatholic Weekly warned “there has been a dangerous growth of anti-Semitism in Australia over the past year or so”. It was important to stamp it out now before it polarised the country. “We have not yet a Der Sturmer (a Nazi tabloid) in our midst, chanting a hymn of hate against every Jew and all Jewish influence, but we have thousands of otherwise rational Australians who are prepared to curse Hitler for everything except what he did to the Jews. Some are even prepared to give him credit for it.” Calwell debated his opponents into submission. He hectored, he cajoled, and within six years of the bipartisan program success could be measured by the arrival of 50,000 migrants from Hitler’s killing fields of Poland.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, Calwell did make one unannounced concession to the bigots. Each migrant <b>boat</b> that came on his watch after that poorly received Dutch-flagged vessel would contain a mix of races. As he explained later: “We had to insist that half the accommodation in these wretched vessels must be sold to non-Jewish people. It would have created a great wave of anti-Semitism and would have been electorally disastrous for the Labor Party had we not made this decision.” His caution was misplaced, as the community proved more welcoming than even the most optimist politician of the day would have hoped.Edited extract from Australia’s Second Chance by George Megalogenis, published next Wednesday by <span class="companylink">Hamish Hamilton</span>, Penguin Australia ($34.99).</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><span class="companylink">VARIETY CLUB</span> SWIZZLE Subverting a striptease and a New York MC; balancing on balls and jumping through rings, these are a few of our favourite things. Brett Haylock, the creative force behind past Brisbane Festival hit La Soiree, returns to the Spiegeltent with cabaret show Club Swizzle. The show features a variety of performances, pulled together by MC Murray Hill. Burlesque star Laurie Hagen (right) nearly steals the show with her reverse striptease and the four Swizzle Boys keep energy levels high with their acrobatic displays. Saucy songstress Christa Hughes injects a few naughty numbers into the two-hour show while vaudevillian Warren Kermond channels old-school variety shows. The two-hour show is an adults-only fusion of circus, cabaret, theatre, comedy and live music, and plays six nights a week during the Brisbane Festival.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Until September 26, The Spiegeltent, South Bank, $70, brisbanefestival.com.au Belinda Seeney</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">FESTIVAL SWELL SCULPTURE A stroll along one of the Gold Coast’s most beautiful beaches got more interesting. Each year weird and wonderful shapes take form along this stretch of sand during the SWELL Sculpture Festival, which is in its 12th year. This year there are 60 works, including the imaginative Queens Land by Currumbin artist Jerome. The work is a giant crown atop Elephant Rock and is an “ode to Queensland” which asks – is the monarchy redundant? Jerome was named best emerging talent at the festival. The winning work was by New South Wales artist Ingrid Morley for Lost andFound – a rope that has detached from a <b>boat</b> and swept up onto the beach. Another standout is a breaching whale – See Life – by Gold Coast artist John Cox. Visitors can browse by day or take a Twilight Sculpture Walk tomorrow evening.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ends tomorrow, Currumbin Beach, Gold Coast Phil Brown</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">STAGE PRIZE FIGHTER It’s one of the most powerful pieces of theatre you will see and it’s a homegrown affair. Queensland playwright Future D. Fidel, who came to Australia as a <b>refugee</b>, tells a story of an African immigrant’s struggles – his own life serving as the inspiration. It is a tale of rising young boxer, Isa – played by Brisbane actor Pachero Mzembe. Fidel takes us ringside while flashing back to the horrors of the Congo. This is an exhilarating and heartwarming visceral work. Pachero Mzembe is also an African immigrant and a boxer, which helps for authenticity. The surprise packet is Margi Brown-Ash as Isa’s trainer. La Boite theatre company developed this play for the Brisbane Festival and director Todd MacDonald has done a brilliant job bringing it together. It works. Boy how it works.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Until September 26, Roundhouse Theatre, La Boite, Kelvin Grove, $30-$59, brisbanefestival.com.au Phil Brown</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">CONCERT A STATE OF GRACE: THE MUSIC OF JEFF AND TIM BUCKLEY Jeff Buckley had no desire to start a career on the back of the reputation of his father, who released nine albums before a fatal drug overdose in 1975, aged 28. But it was a 1991 tribute night to the music of Tim Buckley in Brooklyn which introduced Jeff to the public. At that event Jeff met songwriter and guitarist Gary Lucas, and they co-wrote Grace and Mojo Pin together. The songs featured on Buckley’s classic debut album Grace, the only studio album released before his death in 1997. Now, Lucas oversees this tribute to the Buckleys’ music, part of Brisbane Festival, featuring a cast of guest vocalists, including Martha Wainwright, Willy Mason and Steve Kilbey of The Church.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Friday and September 26, 8pm, Concert Hall, QPAC, South Brisbane, $70-$89, qpac.com.auNoel Mengel</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">COVER STORY Tim Finn was inspired by a modern classic of Australian literature to write the songs for world premiere musical Ladies in Black, writes Noel Mengel</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As anyone who has followed Tim Finn’s musical career for the past 40 years knows, he always finds a way to keep creating.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Whether that’s in Split Enz, a spell with brother Neil in Crowded House for the Woodface album, his solo career, recording and touring with Neil as the Finn Brothers or seeing his songs brought to the stage in the theatre production Poor Boy, Finn is never short of ways to keep moving forward.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sometimes he does not see them coming. That’s Ladies in Black, his first musical, based on The Women in Black, the novel by Madeleine St John, set in a Sydney department store at the end of the ’50s.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I was at Brisbane airport when I saw the book, and I was on the way to Bougainville (in Papua New Guinea) to research some music for a film job,” Finn says. “I’m grateful that I had the chance to do (the film job), but it was quite challenging and one of those challenges was the extreme heat.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I would get back to my room every night, read the book and plunge into another world. It connected on so many levels with me. The central character, Lisa, is 17, but I can relate to the fact that she stood there in the department store on her first day and told the girls she wanted to be a poet.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Even now, for someone to say that is quite a statement, but in 1959 it was quite revolutionary. It was a time of great change in Australia, with so many Europeans coming in, and Lisa comes under the influence of Magda, a Hungarian <b>refugee</b>. It’s a coming-of-age story for Lisa.’’ Madeleine St John was from a prominent Sydney family. Her mother died by suicide when St John was 12 and her father was a barrister and controversial ‘60s Liberal Federal MP.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the <span class="companylink">University of Sydney</span>, St John was a contemporary of Robert Hughes, Clive James and Germaine Greer. Like them, she left for the UK.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Women in Black, her first novel, was published in 1993, set between the stuffy repression of the ’50s and the liberation of the ’60s. It was St John’s only novel set in Australia. Her London-set The Essence of the Thing, published in 1997, was short-listed for the Booker Prize, and she died in 2006.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It is remarkable that she even wrote the book because her life was so unhappy,” Finn says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The death of her mother haunted her for her whole life. But the book has a light touch, it is very tender and warm-hearted and humanistic.” On those nights in steaming Bougainville, those characters who drew Finn to the story suggested songs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It is a book that’s full of songs,’’ he says. “One of the characters is a charming Hungarian guy looking for an Australian wife. He says at one point, ‘I was a bureaucrat in Budapest, that sounds like a song’. And he’s right, it does sound like a song.” Those songs came pouring out of Finn, who alerted director Simon Phillips, who was at the helm for Poor Boy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Phillips’s wife Carolyn Burns wrote the script for Ladies in Black. The Queensland Theatre Company production will have its world premiere in November.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">No one is surprised Finn has turned his hand to a musical, given the theatrical inspiration in the visuals for Split Enz and the drama at the heart of much of the band’s music.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Finn says: “The first musical I saw was My Fair Lady, my mum took me to see it when I was about eight. I still remember jumping to my feet in exultation when they sang I’m Getting Married in the Morning.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“When you look at songs like I See Red and Dirty Creature, they are a highly theatricalised version of emotional trauma. Even Six Months in a Leaky <b>Boat</b> was a dramatised version of Split Enz and what it had been through.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It’s a gift for any songwriter to find something like this. I have written a lot of songs about my life, my turmoils and dramas, so it’s nice to escape into a different narrative.’’ Finn admits he did not know much about fashion when he set off on this journey, although he did plenty of reading in his research for the songs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Magda works in model gowns, which is where the really expensive European frocks come in, and in the ’50s you had these amazing designers like Coco Chanel and Yves St Laurent,” he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“St Laurent was a very complex man. I had a line, ‘He seems to know exactly what it is we want to feel elegant’. But when I read about him the last thing he wanted was elegance. He wanted seduction.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“A department store is a place of transformation, particularly for women. When they go there it is more than just looking for a frock, they are looking for a shift or a leap.’’ Finn also enjoys the energy of a theatrical production.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“This is a massive team of people who work so hard. The actors aren’t starry-eyed, they are people who don’t have a lot of ego. They are happy to subsume that into this thing and make it work. It’s all for the good of the show,” he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Someone said to me, ‘It’s great, you just tricked yourself into writing a big bunch of new songs’. That wasn’t conscious. It came at the right time and I surfed on a new wave. To have people get behind it the way they have is really something.’’ The production cast includes Naomi Price, Carita Farrer Spencer, Christen O’Leary, Andrew Broadbent, Bobby Fox, Kathryn McIntyre, Sarah Morrison and Greg Stone.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">O’Leary says: “It is such a beautiful book and with the script Carolyn has been able to capture exactly the tone that Madeleine St John had in the book.’’ Farrer Spencer: “It’s so exciting to be working on something with Tim’s music. The songs really transform this into something quite magical, it has a fairytale quality.’’</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SEE IT LADIES IN BLACK Where: Playhouse, QPAC, South Brisbane When: November 14-December 6 Cost: $52-$82More info: queenslandtheatre.com.au; qpac.com.au</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Tax is Turnbull's <b>boat</b> problem</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>John Roskam </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>748 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian Financial Review</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AFNR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>38</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2015. Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Politics The new PM will have to do to tax what Tony Abbott did with <b>asylum</b> seekers when he tackled <b>boat</b> arrivals head on.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The pity of Tony Abbott 's prime ministership is that when he did what he believed in, he achieved things and was successful. It was when he did what he did not believe in that he came unstuck.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The shorthand label of "stopping the boats" doesn't do justice to the extent of Abbott's achievement. If the public lacked confidence in this country's migration program, there is absolutely no way the community would have accepted his announcement last week that the number of refugees to be settled in Australia would be almost doubled. Abbott's success is all the more significant when considering that so many "experts" said what he ultimately accomplished could not be done.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The same applies to scrapping the carbon tax and mining tax.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Although few will now acknowledge it, there once was a time in Australia under Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard when it was the deliberate policy of the government to increase the cost of electricity to business and households. Many politicians, corporate leaders and media commentators believed it was both a good idea and electorally popular. Many people, including the staff at the Department of Treasury, also thought we should have higher taxes on one of the few industries in that Australia is internationally competitive.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott led the Coalition to stand against the conventional wisdom. Almost single-handedly, he changed the debate on border protection, and the carbon tax and the mining tax. A significant part of Abbott's political legacy will be both these policies themselves and his demonstration that having a good argument is the best way to overturn the prevailing wisdom. Argument and evidence is what Abbott and his Trade Minister Andrew Robb were using to defeat the trade unions' xenophobic campaign against the China free-trade agreement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The energy, enthusiasm and forcefulness that Abbott displayed in fighting against Labor's policies was, unfortunately, not always brought to bear in advocating for his own policies - especially on economic reform.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What the country needs now is a leader brave enough to argue against the prevailing wisdom that the solution to Australia's budget problem is simple - higher taxes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a way, Abbott never gave himself a chance to win the argument for reform given he'd basically ruled out making budget cuts and/or changing industrial relations before he was even elected. The man who became Prime Minister on the back of his opposition to Labor's higher taxes then proceeded to raise taxes himself, giving Australia one of the highest top marginal rates of personal income tax in the world.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In opposition, Abbott was a passionate defender of freedom of speech. In government, at the first sight of resistance from the prevailing wisdom, he buckled on his promise to amend section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, which makes it unlawful to offend or insult someone because of their race. Abbott appreciates more than most the existential fight for the values of the democracy and liberalism in which the West is currently engaged - and will be engaged in for many years. Freedom of speech and freedom of thought are core values of democracy and liberalism. To many of his supporters, Abbott's abandonment of freedom of speech was an act from which he could never recover.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The challenge is now for Malcolm Turnbull to develop and present a program of economic reform. On tax, Turnbull will have to do what Abbott did on border protection and climate change. He'll have to defy the conventional wisdom that he should just raise taxes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many of the building blocks for that program are already in place thanks to the inquiries already initiated by the Abbott government into tax and federalism. The missing part of that trifecta is, of course, industrial relations, which is probably the most pressing policy area of the three.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"What ifs" haunt life and politics.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's futile but interesting nonetheless, to ponder how Tony Abbott 's term in office would have turned out if, instead of spending his time defending himself against claims that he'd broken his election promises, he'd used his many outstanding personal qualities to fight for economic freedom, freedom in the workplace and freedom of speech.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
John Roskam is executive director of the Institute of Public Affairs.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'><b>Refugee</b> welcome mat at the ready</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>MICHELLE PAINE   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>430 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Hobart Mercury</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>MRCURY</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Hobart</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>9</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TASMANIANS have been registering to open their homes to refugees as planning for the arrivals steps up.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Australian Homestay Network said it had written to state and federal governments about offering accommodation in people’s homes to Syrian refugees.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We’ve already had strong interest from Tasmania and more than 1000 nationally have registered since last week,” executive chairman David Bycroft said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Tasmania has always been one of the most passionate states.” The network is a business that organises homestays of oversees students. Because the organisation already vetted homes and had worked with government, it had the systems in place to allow quick availability.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is hoped refugees fleeing the Syrian war zone can arrive in Tasmania before Christmas, with up to 500 places available.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yesterday community groups met in Parliament House to work on planning. <span class="companylink">Federation of Ethnic Communities Councils</span> chairman Joe Caputo, a national body for mig­rants and refugees, also met with Premier Will Hodgman.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Caputo said governments should be commended for their positive actions in the face of the <b>refugee</b> crisis.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Tasmania has a much lower percentage of migrants and refugees than all other states and this is one important factor why Tasmania has not grown as quickly in recent decades as other states have,” Mr Caputo said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I’m really hopeful the Tasmanian government is beginning to take steps to change that trend and work to attract and retain more migrants and refugees here.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We should also offer safe haven to those who came by <b>boat</b> years ago and have been living without much certainty.” Multicultural Council of Tasmania chairman Alphonse Mul­umba said it was important Tasmania welcomed refugees in addition to safe haven enterprise visa places.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said he had received positive feedback, including a woman setting aside clothes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It just shows you people in the community actually want to care.” Meanwhile, Brighton mayor Tony Foster and Labor leader Bryan Green said it was unlikely the Pontville Detention centre could be used for anything, after it was revealed the buildings have been stripped ­internally.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Cr Foster had hoped the centre could be used, but Mr Green said quality fittings, including kitchens, worth millions, had been removed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Premier Will Hodgman said it made sense that it was dismantled after it was decommissioned.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Federal Government is selling the centre.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Meanwhile, last night Hobart residents joined to launch the <span class="companylink">Amnesty International</span> Australia Denison Action Group.And tomorrow a rally at 11am on Hobart’s Parliament lawns will call for more action on <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>CO</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>foecca : Federation of Ethnic Communities  Councils of Australia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | tasman : Tasmania | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document MRCURY0020150917eb9i0000m</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-TWAU000020150917eb9i0006u" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Sailor causes border stir</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Nick Butterly   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>101 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The West Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TWAU</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015, West Australian Newspapers Limited   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Border protection officials are scrambling to find out how a foreign national managed to sail a yacht to WA’s far north coast without being detected.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The West Australian understands Australian Border Force have taken a man into custody who arrived by himself aboard a <b>boat</b> at Lombadina on the Dampier Peninsula, about 300km from Broome.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is understood the man is from Hong Kong and he is not thought to be an <b>asylum</b> seeker at this stage.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The man was held at Broome police station but Federal authorities took him away for questioning.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Now for a rethink on our response to refugees</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>LOUISE NEWMAN - Professor Louise Newman is director of the Centre for Women's Mental Health at the Royal Women's Hospital and professor of psychiatry at the University of Melbourne. She is vice-president of Doctors for Refugees and former adviser to DIBC on mental health in <b>asylum</b> seekers.  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>917 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>17 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>21</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We can make compassion a reality, releasing all children and families in detention.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull inherits several matters demanding attention, including a complex legacy of distress and damage to <b>asylum</b> seekers in the context of policies of deterrence and isolation.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are deep concerns about conditions in offshore processing centres - reports documenting sexual assault of women and children in centres financed by Australia, poor medical care and increasing rates of mental illness among detainees. Medical practitioners and clinicians are calling for reform and pointing out the difficulties of working within a system that dismisses clinical recommendations and makes ethical practice virtually impossible.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Abbott government dismantled conduits for independent clinical advice about the health and mental health needs of <b>asylum</b> seekers and children and brought in the Border Force Act in July, outlawing disclosures of information about detention centres and threatening two-year imprisonment terms for doing so. There is a crisis within the immigration detention system that must be dealt with.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Addressing the continuing detention of women and children, including infants, is a good place to start. The damage to children in detention is immediate and also has long-term consequences. The legacy of trauma includes mental health and developmental problems and a life often scarred by memories of the conditions in detention.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The impact on women and families of having a baby in detention, when that infant has no rights to identity or visa and little access to healthcare, is significant.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mothers in detention tell me of their wish to die, in the belief that their infant might have a future, and of their terrible guilt and despair at finding their infant is a stateless prisoner.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The detention of these families has been rationalised as being needed to deter others from seeking <b>asylum</b>, with the argument that we must accept the harm inflicted on powerless people. Our new Prime Minister must be told that this is not acceptable or necessary on any level and that Australia can do better.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As we have witnessed so graphically in recent coverage of the mass exodus of desperate families from Syria and in those coming to Australia by sea, the suffering of infants and children is devastating. Parents witness the death of their children in circumstances that will haunt them forever. The initial international response and eventually from the Australian government has been one of both distress and a need to respond. The Australian commitment is arguably small, relative to need, but it signifies a response at a basic level that we all have to protect and care for vulnerable children.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Parents in Syria and other places of conflict and trauma flee to protect their children and offer them a better future. This is an impulse we can all relate to and should respect in all <b>asylum</b>-seeker families; I believe we would all become <b>asylum</b> seekers in such desperate situations</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Seeking refuge and a place of safety drives these long marches and dangerous <b>boat</b> trips. When the risks and fears of remaining outstrip the fear of the journey, people will move in the hope of rescue. To find a safe place and re-establish a sense of identity and future is core to the <b>refugee</b> experience.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fundamental to this is the importance of children and the emotional investment in the next generation. Infants and children embody the wishes of parents who have lost their base for the future of their culture and history. The child has the potential for a new beginning and can be protected from the trauma of the past, but is also an important carrier of memories. The issues for child survivors of massive trauma are complex, and finding their own identity in the face of carrying the burden of trauma in parents is something that has been noted in other examples of genocide and holocaust as complex and potentially scarring.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Asylum</b> seekers know from direct experience that humans have the capacity for tremendous harm and terrible violence. They struggle to continue their lives in the face of this awareness and sadly many face additional trauma and damage in immigration detention. Rather than compassion and care, they often face degrading and demeaning treatment and lose all hope of a better life.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many ask me how the Australian government can do this when they had a belief that the Australian people were not without compassion and a capacity to care for those in need. This is a question for Turnbull as he thinks about reclaiming the goodwill of the community and a return to core values.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This may be an important turning point in thinking about our response to child <b>asylum</b> seekers and calls for a restatement of basic principles that should inform our immigration policy and practices: all children have rights to care and protection and opportunities for healthy development; traumatised children should not be further traumatised and psychologically damaged in prolonged detention.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We now have the opportunity to reaffirm our social commitment to children's wellbeing and make compassion a reality - releasing all children and families in detention and closing offshore and remote centres would be a start.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Paedophile made himself human torch</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Tayissa Barone   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>420 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>17 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The West Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TWAU</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Second</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015, West Australian Newspapers Limited   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An Afghan <b>asylum</b> seeker fighting for life with burns to 90 per cent of his body after a suicide attempt at the Northam detention centre is a convicted child-sex predator awaiting deportation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ali Jaffari, 37, is believed to be in a critical condition in Fiona Stanley Hospital after he set himself alight in Yongah Hill Immigration Detention Centre on Tuesday night.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is understood he draped himself in a sheet before pouring petrol on himself and igniting it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shocked detainees looked on in horror as staff tried to put the fire out. Two staff members were injured and were treated by paramedics but did not need further attention.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The RAC Rescue helicopter flew Jaffari to Perth for specialist burns treatment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Department of Immigration and Border Protection and WA Police are investigating the incident.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Jaffari was transferred to Yongah Hill from a Melbourne detention centre this year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His permanent protection visa was cancelled in May last year by then immigration minister Scott Morrison because Jaffari did not meet the character test.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Jaffari, 37, arrived in Australia in October 2010 on a <b>boat</b> he boarded in Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In February last year he was convicted of indecently assaulting two boys under the age of 16 at a Geelong swimming pool in 2012.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While taking part in a sex offenders program, Jaffari told a corrections officer about accessing child exploitation material.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An analysis of his computer revealed 27 images of child pornography and he was charged and again convicted.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For each conviction he received three-month jail sentences with his prison terms suspended.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In April, he lost his appeal to stay in Australia but has remained in detention because of issues related to his deportation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Refugee</b> Action Coalition spokesman Ian Rintoul said no crime warranted an indefinite detention and <span class="companylink">Serco</span>, which operates Yongah Hill, had been negligent in its duties to keep Jaffari safe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said Jaffari had made two suicide attempts in recent weeks, one particularly serious when he tried to cut his throat.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“He is effectively being detained at the pleasure of the Minister ... He should be somewhere where he can get serious mental health support, not Yongah Hill,” Mr Rintoul said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A department spokesman said any transferee who threatened or undertook self-harm got clinically guided support.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The higher the assessed risk of self-harm, the higher the level of engagement and support,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If you or someone you know is thinking of suicide, phone Lifeline on 13 11 14</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Heartache for those left behind</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>LEIGH VAN DEN BROEKE   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>327 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>17 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2015 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THEY are the Syrian <b>refugee</b> family whose hearts are in Western Sydney but whose thoughts are with loved ones in the Middle East.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Amer Albaloout, 37, and his wife, Abir Daher, 28, have a great affection for their new home in Blacktown after escaping war-torn Syria with their two children Noor, 8, and Aline, 5. Now all they want is for the family members they left behind to have the opportunity to come to Australia as well.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The family of four arrived on August 18, 2014, as refugees with 202 visas thanks to Amer having a brother living in Sydney.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They are learning English at the SydWest Multicultural Services centre in Blacktown and TAFE. Amer hopes to go to university and study engineering, Abir also wants to study as well, while Noor enjoys swimming lessons and Nadir has a talent for art.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“(We are) very, very happy. It was my dream,” Amer said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“(Australia) is safe for my family and we are happy because Australia took my family and accepted us. I am happy that my son is very good at English now and my daughter is happy in childcare.” Abir, who is studying English, said they all had an appetite for education. But, despite assimilating into Australian culture, Amer and Abir can’t help but think about the family members left behind.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Amer’s mother and father as well as four brothers and seven sisters are spread across Syria, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria and Germany: “My father, brother and sister are in the Emirates (with temporary visas),” Amer said. “My brother in Turkey (he went) to Germany by <b>boat</b>.” Abir has a mother, three sisters and a brother in Syria.SydWest Multicultural Services executive officer Elfa Moraitakis said they had helped 50 families settle into Blacktown this year: “They have been through an ­ordeal and are grateful to Australia for giving them a home.’’</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Here’s my list of songs for Tony to ease pain of rejection and remind him of his finest achievements</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Petra Starke   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BACK in the 1990s, which as I understand it is a decade today’s young people are irrationally romantically obsessed with (seriously guys, put the chokers and floral print away), it was customary after a relationship breakup to make the other party a mix tape.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For those of you whose only experience of the ’90s was being born into it, a mix tape is a homemade cassette featuring a compilation of songs carefully hand-picked and lovingly recorded (often badly, from the radio) by the creator.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was sort of like the iPod shuffle of its day. Wait, even that sounds dated now. It was like putting Spotify on random and somehow being able to carry it around in your pocket, and occasionally stick a pencil in it to make it work properly again. You get the picture.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even though you’d usually only make a mix tape in the event of a mutual and amicable split, not in the sort of breakup where one person announces to the entire country that they think the other person is a dud and then dumps them on national television, I thought it might be nice to make one for our former prime minister.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So here’s my list of songs for Tony Abbott, to help ease the pain of rejection and act as a reminder of some of his finest achievements.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Pixies — Tony’s Theme I wonder if, when The Pixies released their seminal album Surfer Rosa in 1988, they knew how prescient their lyrics would turn out to be after an Australian Liberal government spill 27 years later.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Probably not, but in track nine, Tony’s Theme, we have the perfect farewell for the former PM, an “evil chasing” weirdo who rides a bicycle, to whom we’re “waving bye, bye, bye, bye, bye.” It doesn’t mention anything about budgie smugglers but hey, they were mostly right.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Anything by Built to Spill.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Stop the Show would be an appropriate choice, as would Never Be the Same, but given the current state of the Liberal Party anything by this American indie band would work.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Taj Mahal — Malcolm’s Song What better way to get through a breakup than with a song by one of the world’s best blues musicians? This chilled out instrumental is from Taj Mahal’s 1977 album Brothers. Ah, the irony.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Split Enz — Six Months in a Leaky <b>Boat</b> Meant more as a comment on his last six months in office, but Tone will probably take it as praise for his <b>asylum</b>-seeker policies. That’s OK, it’s normal for people to be a bit delusional after a breakup.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Prince — Controversy Even though it doesn’t include any lyrics about making Prince Philip a knight, I’d like to think Tony is smart enough to grasp the subtext here.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Survivor — Broken Promises He’d probably prefer Eye of the Tiger but given Tony’s “no cuts to education, no cuts to health, no change to pensions, no change to the GST and no cuts to the ABC or SBS” speech before the last election, as well as the dumping of his paid parental leave policy that helped to get him in office in the first place, promising a submarines build for SA and then moving them offshore, promising $16 million to Cadbury’s in Tasmania and then taking it back, and his as yet unfulfilled pledge to recognise indigenous people in the constitution, this one seems far more appropriate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Booker T and the MGs — Green Onions For obvious reasons.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PETRA.STARKE@NEWS.COM.AU TWITTER.COM/PETSTARRFACEBOOK.COM/PETSTARR</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Important achievements by Abbott's government</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>281 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First Drop-in</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>8</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">LEADERSHIP CHANGE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">FREE TRADE AGREEMENT</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tony Abbott moved to quickly finalise the free trade agreement under negotiation in 2014 with South Korea in April, Japan in June and China in November.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ZERO BOATS</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A key election promise, Abbott and Morrison announced six months of zero <b>boat</b> arrivals on 19 June 2014. No other boats have arrived on Australia's shores.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">CARBON TAX</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After two previous attempts, the Abbott government was able to secure a deal with the crossbenchers in the Senate to pass legislation to repeal the tax on July 17 2014.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">MINING TAX</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a surprise deal with the Palmer United Party, the Abbott government was able to secure enough support to repeal the mining tax on September 2, 2014.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">MH17</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Led the diplomatic campaign in early 2014 against Russia to ensure access to the crash sight of shot-down commercial passenger plane MH17.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">FUEL EXCISE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Abbott government used a Customs tariff to increase the fuel excise and bypass the Senate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">G20</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the November 2014 G20 Heads of Government meeting in Brisbane, leaders agreed to more than 800 reform measures related to boosting economic growth, increased female workplace participation and strengthening global governance institutions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">AIRSTRIKES</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In October 2014, Abbott announced Australia would undertake airstrikes in Iraq at the request of the Iraqi government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">IRAQ SUPPORT</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In April 2015, announced the deployment of 330 Australian personnel to assist with training of the Iraqi Army.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>REFUGEE</b> AID</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On September 9 2015, Abbott announced that Australia would settle an additional 12,000 at Syrian refugees fleeing the civil war in Syria at a cost of $700 million over four years.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Mal’s Aussie battle</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1067 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">JOBS CURRENT POSITION This month the unemployment rate eased back to 6.2 per cent, with 17,400 new jobs created. Business groups will put pressure on Turnbull to help reform and help restore business confidence. A policy of ending industry subsidies led to the collapse of the car industry and thousands of jobs while more than 13,000 jobs were lost in Victoria’s battling manufacturing sector during the past two years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TURNBULL WAY His sales pitch for the leadership was to provide “economic confidence creating the jobs and the prosperity of the future”. Unlikely to reinstate a policy of industry handouts, but perhaps more inclined to work with states to encourage jobs growth through funding infrastructure projects in Melbourne. The $3 billion from axed East West Link plan could be diverted to Metro rail tunnel. He Is likely to focus on innovation and new industry, and face pressure for industrial relations reform.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">FAMILY BENEFITS CURRENT POLICY A $3.5 billion childcare package encouraging more than 240,000 families to increase their involvement in paid employment, including almost 38,000 jobless families. Offset with proposals to strip 500,000 single parents and sole-breadwinner families of up to $3000 a year in family tax rebate payments as soon as their youngest child turns six, saving up to $8.5 billion. A generous paid parental leave policy has been ditched, and a contentious policy would end “double dipping” to save almost $1 billion.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TURNBULL WAY A new sales pitch will be required to get contentious changes past the Senate. Turnbull and his likely new treasurer Scott Morrison are expected to cut a deal with crossbenchers to achieve some Budget changes, without further hurting families. More focus is expected on providing support to childcare. No return to the paid parental leave policy expected, but the attack on “double dipping” will probably be dropped. Reform of superannuation industry is likely but won’t touch negative gearing for fear of affecting rental prices.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">CARBON TAX CURRENT POSITION The Abbott government’s key success in two turbulent years was scrapping this unpopular Labor policy. Due to take a target of reducing emissions by at least 26 per cent of 2005 levels by 2030 to the Paris summit this year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TURNBULL WAY He is unlikely to move on current policy, because of his downfall as Liberal leader in 2009 when he pledged bipartisan support of an emissions trading scheme. Will walk a fine line between appearing to be pro-environment while not upsetting his Right wing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TERRORISM CURRENT POLICY Tough new laws to combat homegrown terrorists have been coupled with air strikes on both Iraq and Syria targeting <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span>. The Government has also flagged control orders on children as young as 14.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TURNBULL WAY Will continue to support air strikes in troubled Middle East, which has bipartisan support. Expect a softening in language and few references to the “death cult”, a favourite of Abbott. Turnbull has said it is vital not to become “amplifiers of their wickedness and significance”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">CHINA FREE TRADE DEAL CURRENT POSITION Campaign by unions against elements of the historic deal has risked its future and hurt the Government in marginal seats. Has accused the Opposition of a “xenophobic” campaign against the agreement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TURNBULL WAY He will lift the sales pitch for the deal, which is worth billions to the Victorian economy alone. In his bid for his colleagues’ votes he described Labor leader Bill Shorten’s stance as “catastrophically reckless”. He said free trade was “surely one of the most important foundations of our prosperity”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">REFUGEES CURRENT POSITION Government introduced tough border protection policy including turning back boats, and refused to resettle refugees attempting to get here by <b>boat</b>. In the face of tidal wave of refugees from Syria, will accept one-off humanitarian intake of 12,000, on top of 13,000-plus from elsewhere.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TURNBULL WAY He took a hardline approach to immigration while Opposition leader and would not dare tinker with the Government’s successful policy. May soften language towards those seeking <b>asylum</b>, but any relaxation in policy would be politically dangerous.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SAME-SEX MARRIAGE CURRENT POSITION The Government resolved to take a policy of a plebiscite on the issue to the next election, following a marathon partyroom meeting. A public vote on the matter would be held some time in 2017 or 2018.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TURNBULL WAY Has argued strongly for a free vote in Parliament and is an advocate for gay marriage. Unlikely to overturn the policy, but will face pressure to bring forward a plebiscite to coincide with the next federal election at a cost of $44 million, compared to the $150 million cost of a stand-alone vote.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">GST, TAX CURRENT POSITION Mr Abbott promised not to change the GST in his 2013 election pledge, but softened in recent months towards either broadening it to fresh food and health services or lifting it to 15 per cent. Treasurer Joe Hockey pledged to cut income tax and tackle bracket creep but struggled to convince public he was genuine.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TURNBULL WAY Expect a serious commitment to tax reform from Turnbull and Scott Morrison. Tax cuts likely to be on the 2016 election agenda, while the Government will continue working with states to increase GST. Will press on with the plan to ensure that multinationals pay their fair share of taxes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">WORKPLACE RELATIONS CURRENT POSITION Abbott government was gun-shy of broaching the subject other than moving to enhance the powers of the construction industry watchdog. And it ran a million miles away from a <span class="companylink">Productivity Commission</span> report encouraging tinkering with workplace relations.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TURNBULL WAY Expect “grown-up” debate on penalty rates, pleasing his economically dry colleagues and the business lobby. And he could well embrace calls for a flat weekend penalty rate for the hospitality, entertainment, retail, restaurant and cafe sector, while protecting emergency services.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">REPUBLIC DEBATE CURRENT POSITION Mr Abbott’s staunch support for the British monarchy has ensured there has been little discussion of a republic in the past few years. Popular visits from Prince Harry and Prince William and his young family have also put the debate on the backburner.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TURNBULL WAYAlthough a lifelong republican and former head of the republican movement, he is unlikely to upset this apple cart. And he is likely to resist a push to put the issue back on the agenda.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>'Bad polls, not media', to blame for ousting</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Tom Allard, National affairs editor   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">LEADERSHIP CHANGE - Howard's view Praise for former PM</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Former prime minister John Howard says it's wrong to blame the media for Tony Abbott's demise, saying his removal at the hands of his colleagues was sealed by "entrenched" poor polling.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Howard's assessment stands in contrast to his former political protege's missive aimed at the press gallery in his last statement as prime minister.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Moments before handed in his resignation, Mr Abbott lamented that political coverage was driven more and more by polls and commentary that was "mostly sour, bitter, character assassination".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Abbott's critique was picked up by many of his backers in the Murdoch tabloids and on talkback radio, but rejected by Mr Howard.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I'm not into blaming the media," he said. "They have a very important role to play in public life.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I do think we are living in a more supercharged, frenetic, top-of-the-head [media] environment and it is different.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I can understand people drawing surface comparisons but I think there's more to the surface comparisons. I do think the major reason the Liberal Party made the change was the state of the polls."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Politics is relentlessly driven by the laws of arithmetic and I do think, if the polls had been different, even to a modest but measurable degree, there may not have been a change."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Howard declined to say if he thought the party room was right to depose Mr Abbott.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Ultimately, the Australian people will decide that," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He also refused to say whether - as reported - he had advised Mr Abbott to offer Malcolm Turnbull the treasurer's position earlier this year to heal divisions and provide a circuit-breaker to his political misfortune.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He added he was glad he helped persuade Mr Turnbull not to quit politics in 2010, although he did not anticipate at the time that he would become Prime Minister.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Howard had generous praise for Mr Abbott, highlighting the end of <b>asylum</b> seekers arriving in Australia by <b>boat</b>, the axing of the carbon and mining taxes and the efforts to repair the budget as "very significant legacies".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In his view, perhaps Mr Abbott's greatest political achievement was almost defeating a first-term Labor government in 2010.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He revealed he was surprised when Mr Abbott overthrew Mr Turnbull when he was opposition leader in 2009.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"But, by heaven, once he got the job, he made the most of it."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As for Mr Turnbull, he was "a very good minister" in his government who explains economic concepts "very clearly and very lucidly".</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>RIGHTEOUS IGNORE KINDNESS</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NICK CATER </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1021 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>15 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>12</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Language police are trying to change the terminology in the <b>asylum</b>-seeker debate</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One can only assume James Carle­ton had missed the Zaky Mallah memo cautioning against putting dangerous radicals to air. That’s assuming of course that ABC management sent one.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Ewen Jones, welcome to Breakfast,” said Carleton. “Nice to have you on the program. For the first time I think?” “Yes,” the Townsville MP replied. “My first time on Radio National and I don’t get Fran Kelly.” It is an open question whether Kelly would have risked giving Jones an open microphone. The member for Herbert’s dangerous views on coalmining and live cattle are no secret. More troubling still, Jones is a follower of Tony Abbott.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet Radio National listeners deserved to know. Why would someone who supports turning back the boats care a jot about Syrian refugees, let alone propose that we admit 50,000 of them?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I do think we have to be very generous and compassionate at this time,” Jones told listeners.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“In the bush people think: ‘What would happen if that was me?’ And people stop and take care. And that’s the nature of Australia.” Jones was seriously messing with Carleton’s head. How could an adverb like compassionate be part of a far north Queenslander’s vocabulary?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The stereotypical view is that outside the capital cities they’re more unwelcoming than the people in capital cities,” said Carleton. “What do people in Townsville say?” Carleton was not the only commentator who had difficulty reconciling the Coalition’s stance on border security with last week’s open-hearted extension of the humanitarian immigration program. Abbott haters struggled to hide their irritation. What could they criticise him for now?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Reflexive cynicism,” The Age’s Julie Szego scoffed, “and an insult to national pride when Germany is prepared to welcome 800,000 displaced people and Finland’s millionaire Prime Minister Juha Sipila has invited <b>asylum</b>-seekers to camp at his country villa.” The Prime Minister’s factual claim that Australia has the largest humanitarian program per capita in the world was dismissed as spin. It was “incredibly misleading”, declared Marc Fennell, the presenter of SBS’s The Feed. “Our <b>refugee</b> intake is third behind the US and Canada.” Fennell’s wilful ignorance of the term per capita is symptomatic of the idle thinking that has marred the <b>asylum</b>-seeker debate since the Tampa. A government that protects the integrity of its borders and maintains an orderly migration program is accused of “pandering to racist sentiments”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The open-borders advocates casually impugn the motives of their fellow Australians, labelling reasonable concerns about uncontrolled migration as illnesses. Popular support for turning back boats and offshore detention is ­diagnosed as xenophobia. To express a preference for Christian migrants is Islamophobia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now the language police are objecting to the word migrant. “Migrant is a political word that used to take away the real status of these people,” the saintly celebrity Bono lectured last week. “They are refugees.” It is revealing that Bono should express a strong preference for the word <b>refugee</b>, with its overtones of haplessness and helplessness, over migrant, a person who makes an active decision to seek a better life.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The real purpose of such rhetoric, one fears, is not the protection of the huddled masses but to safeguard Bono’s elevated position in the moral universe. Political correctness separates the righteous from the ignorant, distinguishing them with a warm inner glow.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Thousands turned out to deliver a simple message,” Lindy Kerin reported on the ABC’s AM the morning after a candlelight vigil in Sydney last week.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And what was that simple message? A GetUp! organiser speaking from the podium spelled it out.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We should be so proud of ourselves standing here tonight with courage and compassion to say welcome,” he said. Cheers followed as the crowd gave itself a pat on the back.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Support for the <b>refugee</b> resettlement program is stronger than such posturing allows. The Scanlon Foundation’s Social ­Cohesion Survey reports that three in four Australians support the program.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The survey found that Australians draw a sharp distinction between refugees assessed overseas and those who arrived by <b>boat</b>. Only 24 per cent believed <b>boat</b> ­arrivals should be granted permanent residency.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It suggests that Jones was more in touch with public opinion than many at the ABC. John Howard’s words before the 2001 election — “we will decide, and nobody else, who comes to this country” — resonated widely. So did the seldom-quoted caveat that preceded it. “We will be compassionate, we will save lives, we will care for people.” The exceptional success of Australia’s migration program is too often overlooked in the hand-wringing over refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Proportionately, Australia’s overseas-born population (26 per cent) is more than twice as large as Germany’s (12.9 per cent) and Britain’s (12.4 per cent). It is three times larger than in France (8.5 per cent).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is widespread anxiety in Britain about the size of the intake, 330,000 last year. Australia’s intake last year was twice as large in per capita terms, yet the number of new arrivals is seldom a matter of concern.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It suggests that the key to public acceptance is not the quantity of migrants but their character and the orderliness of their ­arrival.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Abbott government’s determination to screen future ­arrivals under the humanitarian program will not just improve the chance that they will flourish but also the warmth of their welcome.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“If we’re going to bring people to this country on whatever visa is available, we must make sure that they are going to be able to participate in society,” Jones told Radio National.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We must make sure that there are jobs available, that people are actually going to get out of their homes and meet other people and be accepted into our country.” In a week of cant and posturing, the member for Herbert stood tall as the voice of common sense.Nick Cater is executive director of the <span class="companylink">Menzies Research Centre</span> .</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Boosting the <b>refugee</b> intake is just cold, hard common sense</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Peter Hartcher - Peter Hartcher is the international editor  </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia has been congratulating itself on its "generosity" and "compassion" for increasing its humanitarian intake to allow an extra 12,000 Syrian refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In truth, if conducted properly, it is a hard-headed act in the long-term national interest.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the short run, it's true that it costs governments money to process, admit and absorb refugees. The federal government estimates that admitting the 12,000 will cost the national budget about $700 million over four years. State and local governments will spend more.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There will be social costs, too. Many will have fled dreadful traumas. Some will be mentally distressed, some will be physically damaged, some will be both.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A new survey of 2399 refugees admitted in 2013 shows that 88 per cent were unemployed in the three to six months after they'd arrived. Only 7 per cent said that earned income was their main support. One in four couldn't understand spoken English, according to the Building a New Life in Australia report published on Monday by the Department of Social Services.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We need to be realistic. The Syrians are fleeing a shocking civil war with utter barbarity on both sides. But as time goes by, as refugees recover and adjust and settle, the picture changes. Dramatically.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Just ask Frank Lowy, a Hungarian who fled the Nazis and arrived in Australia as a <b>refugee</b> in 1952 with lousy English, no money and a poor education. His little delicatessen in Sydney's West flourished and he became the biggest shopping-centre owner in the world. His personal wealth, estimated last year at $7 billion. Recent entrepreneurial standouts among Australian refugees include the tech entrepreneurs Ruslan Kogan of <span class="companylink">Kogan Technologies</span>, who lived in public housing when he first arrived and is now estimated to be worth some $400 million, and Huy Truong of Wishlist fame, who arrived as a Vietnamese <b>boat</b> person.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's not just business success stories. Eminent scientist Sir Gustav Nossal fled Austria, soccer broadcaster Les Murray fled Hungary, cricketer Fawad Ahmed fled Pakistan, popular science broadcaster Karl Kruszelnicki fled Poland. The became citizens and champions of Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Since World War II , some 800,000 refugees have made Australia home. Any group that big would be bound to have some outstanding successes among its members.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What about the experience of refugees as a whole? The Department of Immigration commissioned the demographer Professor Graeme Hugo of Adelaide University to study the impact of refugees on Australia over two generations.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His 2011 report is the most detailed and authoritative study of the subject.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The study made a number of findings. Here are five of the key ones.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">First, refugees are the youngest group of immigrants to Australia. At an average age of 21.8 years, they were about six years younger than the average of all immigrants and 15 years younger than the Australian population as a whole in 2006.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Meaning? The refugees, more than any other group, lower Australia's average age, moderate the aging of society, spend their entire working lives in Australia and contribute to the economic viability of Australia in the long term. They are also more likely to bear children, contributing further to the youthfulness of the population.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Second, refugees are much more likely to remain in Australia than other immigrants. They are more than twice as likely to commit their entire lives, and not leave again after a few years, Hugo reports.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Third, first-generation refugees have trouble integrating into the workforce. But by the second generation, they actually participate more heavily - that is, with a higher participation rate - than the population as a whole.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fourth, refugees put such high emphasis on education that those aged 15 to 24 are more likely to be in education than either other immigrants or the population as a whole.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fifth, refugees, more than any other category of immigrant, are likely to start a business.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One of the reasons that Germany has welcomed Syrian refugees is because of Germany's ageing population. Like Australia, Germany sees the value in trying to moderate the ageing of society. As Astrid Ziebarth of the German Marshall Fund think tank put it, Germany's response is "as pragmatic as idealistic".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Refugees have made up a tenth of our postwar immigrant intake and a twentieth of our postwar population growth.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Refugees are a closely interwoven part of the Australian success story. "We are the best in the world at integrating refugees," says Scott Morrison, minister for social services. While cautioning that we need to continue to do it carefully and thoroughly, he reminds us that it's been in our long-term national interests.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He's right. We think we're doing it for them. In the long run, we're doing it for us.</p>
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